“Personal responsibility, honor, hard work, that’s what it means to be a Republican.”
I was six — a first-grader — that September, and I have no memories of it. No memory of hearing about the first plane, no memory of watching the second plane, no memory of my parents or teacher telling me what happened and trying to explain why it had.
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