A different kind of anniversary this 9/11
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Dan Rather
      Something happened between Sept. 11 of last year and this year's fast-approaching anniversary. Last year, we marveled that five years had passed since that dark day; this year, there seems for the first time a national feeling that 9/11 is, finally and irrevocably, a part of the past.
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A Southern gentleman living in the North
Pokin' Fun
'Doc' Blakely
      Hurricane Dean was in the Gulf, maybe to my home state of Texas, maybe further south. "I hate to wish this off on the Mexicans, but…" said a friend. "Me too," I replied, "Because they're all up here.
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      A game, not a war Letter to the Editor: I read the comments J.M. Thomas of Richmond made regarding the WHS coach and his choice of boys to play football. One comment he made was, "...football is about the best eleven kids...and it is not happening....
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Appreciating the sacrifice of American soldiers
      I was sitting alone in one of those loud, casual steakhouses that you find all over the country. You know the type - a bucket of peanuts on every table, shells littering the floor, and a bunch of perky college kids racing around with long neck beers and sizzling platters. Taking a sip of my iced ...
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