A Decade of Heroes

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On a morning of horrors on Sept. 11, 2001, we witnessed acts of sacrifice that will live forever in American memory.

As people fled the World Trade Center, amid falling bodies and debris, firefighters ran into them. As people ran down the stairs, the firefighters marched up them. They carried 100 pounds of gear, moving slowly toward a fire hot enough to melt steel raging 1,000 feet above them.

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A Decade of Heroes

After a flaccid decade of (somewhat illusory) prosperity and peace in the 1990s, the savagery of Sept. 11 brought home the timeless relevance of the virtue of courage. Not "m...

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