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I WITNESS: Other duties as assigned

In short, the woman who cannot decide whether she is GI Jane, Calamity Jane, or Amelia Earhart is a despicable freak whose removal was both justified and overdue.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Plaza Suite

Our Self-Taught Gardener takes away very different impressions from visits to two new plazas in New York City: one inspires hope while the other seems like a missed opportunity.

NYCFD Firefighter Robert William Alexander, 43, Mt. Everett graduate, victim of rescue operations at World Trade Center

At home and on his morning off on September 11th 2001 he reported to his precinct in East Harlem  and then onto the World Trade Center. From September 11th, 2001 until January of 2002 he worked at the World Trade Center site.

Raymond W. Alexander, 76, of South Egremont, retired New York City firefighter, victim of World Trade Center-linked cancer

During his career he was cited numerous times for conspicuous duties and once for personal bravery in which he slid on a life-saving rope down the rear of a burning tenement to search for trapped occupants.

EDGEWISE: After Paris, searching upstream for the source of terrorism

If we really want to defang the terrorists, we should stop selling them weapons, for starters.

The day I don’t remember: Visiting the 9/11 Memorial

Monument Mountain Regional High School junior Jacob Robbins was in preschool when al-Qaeda terrorists flew two commandeered aircraft into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, toppling the towers and killing more than 3,000. He recently visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City to find connections to a day he doesn't remember.
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