Temporarily back from the fishing expedition, but just to post this. A friend and colleague is working on this project. It is an archive of television footage — worldwide — for the week of 9/11/01. The idea of the Internet Archive is to preserve every bit of digital information in the world for future generations. The 9/11 […]
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My father used to talk to my older brother and me about the War when were little kids. It was the mid-to-late 1960’s and World War II was fairly recent history. Germany and Japan had surrendered just over 20 years prior to that, the rough equivalent today of the end of the First Gulf War. […]
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I hadn’t been to lower Manhattan in a couple of months, until last Thursday night when I drove by the ever-growing Freedom Tower and was amazed by its progress. In a very short period of time — after a long stretch of seeming inactivity — the Tower has taken shape. It is massive already, and it is […]
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How do you explain what happened to the World Trade Center towers to a four-and-three-quarter-year old child? The best advice might be not to try, but I found myself doing just the opposite last night while driving by the gap along the West Side Highway where the towers stood. I tend to give it to […]
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