By the way … I’m voting for George Walker Bush for President tomorrow. Early in the morning.

On September 12, 2001, shocked and disheartened, I was disappointed in Dubya. To put it mildly.

But by September 13, after some European readers told me that we deserved the horror I had witnessed the day before, and that I should understand the root causes, I posted this: Patriotism.

I was still finding my voice in those days, but I meant the words I wrote on the 13th.

With all my heart.

Never forget:

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