How To Remember
Baltimore
he world returns to normality.
Television networks are run-
ning new episodes of prime-
time shows rather than 24
hours of uninterrupted news coverage of
the terrorist attacks on America. We've
begun to talk about football again.
Pundits are criticizing the president and
some partisan lines
are reappearing.
Those hours and
days following the
single deadliest
attack this country
has ever weathered
will forever haunt
and affect the
American psyche.
ANDREW A.
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Americans experi-
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enced depression.
Commentary
One-third had
trouble sleeping at
night; we seemed asleep during the
day. I wish that this would be the
worst our country will ever again see.
In some ways, during our weeklong
slumber, there were signs of hope and
visions of a nation we knew only from
books, old movies and from our grand-
parents' stories. One day, I left my car in
a parking lot, windows rolled down and
doors unlocked. Who would dare steal
something from me after this? In fact, in
New York City, crime dropped 63 per-
cent the week after the terrorist attack.
Americans flew their flags. The
national anthem was heard in the halls
of our symphonies and synagogues. We
stopped obsessing with celebrities'
lives. Instead, we focused on real
heroes — police and firefighters, men
and women who rushed into burning
buildings as others ran for their lives in
the opposite direction. These people
aren't known solely for their athleticism
and multimillion-dollar contracts.
We haven't had real heroes for
decades. Other than our parents and
athletes, most of us never had heroes.
We now have heroes who aren't sports
stars. In a switch: sports heroes wore
firemen's caps. And firemen opened the
stock exchange and threw out baseball's
first pitches. Not movie stars.
Americans were civil to each other,
even New Yorkers. I went out of my
way to thank the police officers guard-
ing our shuls.
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