Like the attack on Pearl Harbor, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, forced a reluctant nation to acknowledge a war that had been raging for years. It began with the Iranian revolution in 1979, when militant Islamists kidnapped American embassy workers in Tehran. There would be repeated attacks throughout the 1980s and 1990s, building…

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Regrets

I was thinking over my past as I was washing dishes.

What do people usually regret about their past?

They usually do not say, “I am glad I was mean to people. I wished I had treated people worst. I wish I didn’t have so many friends and people who care about me!”

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Conservation

Can you see what is faintly under Amy’s name?

It says “Elliot”.

She is wearing the P.E. sweatshirt he wore in 6th grade.

Waste not, want not. We love hand-me-downs. Some of my best clothes are “gently worn” clothes from my friends and sisters. :)

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