Here's Peggy Noonan on what was heard on 9/11, so memorable and fraught with meaning.
This is what I get from the last messages. People are often stronger than they know, bigger, more gallant than they'd guess. And this: We're all lucky to be here today and able to say what deserves saying, and if you say it a lot, it won't make it common and so unheard, but known and absorbed.Posted by Alan at September 8, 2006 07:04 AMI think the sound of the last messages, of what was said, will live as long in human history, and contain within it as much of human history, as any old metallic roar.