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Excerpts from pipenozzle.com post on 9/11 in historical context:

9/11 will become a monument. But 9/11 has already become yet another powerful metaphor for the infinite stupidity of human beings, the infinite willingness to destroy. And 9/11 has become yet another metaphor of the infinite capacity of human beings to resist the worst humanity has to offer. Firefighters are that metaphor. Every single day. Before, during, and after 9/11, they faced and face stupidity and destruction and do something to stop it, day after day after day.

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The fire service, then, before and since September 1940, before and since September 2001, is a highly visible, daily metaphor of the choice to fight destruction, to fight the worst in human nature with the best.

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