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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Manhattan correspondent Steve M. reports on 9/11 from the grove of academe:
About a year ago, I mentioned on your site that my youngest daughter's school briefly put up the American flag on a school flagpole that had been vacant since the 1960s. After a month of faculty and student protests (oppressive symbol, racist, sexist country, etc.), the trustees voted to take the flag back down. The Calhoun School said, however, that they would fly the US flag on three federal holidays (when the school would be closed), and on September 11th. I walked by this morning to see how they are fulfilling that lame promise.
Answer: the sly boots, they have removed the flagpole. Like good liberals, they are making sure no one is offended. Very much including Osama. This at a Manhattan school where, by Thursday evening, September 13, 2001, you could not breathe because of the smoke and stench of death from the Trade Centre ruins.
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Regarding the Crescent of Embrace planned as a Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania: Was the Box-Cutter of Friendship idea already taken?
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The march & two-step accompanying the sheet music above may be heard by scrolling almost all the way down at Perfessor Bill's.
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Advice for Bush-Haters:
"There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country but despise your Government."
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