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“It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My fists hit the floor. My head hit the floor. My heart broke, hardened, and I lost my fa...”
“On the TV and in the newspapers all we hear and read is 'live your life or the terrorists win' and it sounds great, Im all for that, except my kids wont ask for a bathroom pass because the faculty ...”
“In my life Ive been very lucky to travel around the world and see students and teachers in nearly two dozen countriesbut the most awe-inspiring experience Ive ever had was two years after 9/11 when...”
“Korea is often called the Land of the Morning Calm. Its a country where you notice the filth and the smog on your first trip and you cant imagine why you ever thought it was a good idea to visit. T...”
“The only thing worse than his arrogance was his incompetence. He was a bully, behaving like an ass. I saw Angel though, not him. The memorial was right there, just outside the window. Its in the fl...”
“We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.”
“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. Its not so easy, moving forward.”
“Ahead in the distance we could see the main gate, but there was a sea of cars, none moving, people standing, milling around, waiting nervously, perhaps fearfully, as heavily armed MPs and military ...”
“In Korea Id been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didnt get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and then to a different someplac...”
“There are more good people than bad people, and overall theres more thats good in the world than there is thats bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.”
“DPRK translates to Democratic Peoples Republic of Koreaand if the words Democratic and Republic sound like a good thing, well, its oxymoronic because the Korea were talking about here is the commun...”
“The look of a smug teacher is priceless.”
“For your own security its imperative you blend in with the native population.”
“It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you danceteachers tell students something about who they are, students pretend to care,...”
“Far to our left I could see a commercial airliner on final approach to Soekarno-Hatta. Far to our right I could see the outline of tall city buildings. The imagery was hard to ignore. In the midst ...”
“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. Hed made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a ticket home.”
“We obviously dont live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have more important thi...”
“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”
“Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.”
“The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I still can’t find words to ...”
