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This coming Monday marks a somber anniversary: the fifth year after 9/11, a day when our country was changed forever.

David Friend, now a Vanity Fair magazine editor and former Director of Photography at LIFE magazine has published an important and compelling book: 'Watching the World Change: Stories Behind the Images of 9/11' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

We've built a Books Gallery from 'Watching the World Change' that features photos from the book with audio commentary from David Friend. Please take a moment today and take a look.

You'll also find my interviews with Kristen Breitweiser on her book 'Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow' and with Tom Kean on his book 'Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.'

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• #10 Comment from ccsilverhoe 
  9/12/06 5:00 AM | Permalink

      Talk is cheep folks,besides,the big wigs uptown aren't listining to us anyhow,they just do whatever they like and walk away with some fat pockets.no pain no gain kristen,shame on you,if you need a free lunch look me up,i'll take care of ya.                        bottom line folks / when you leave in the a.m. to start your day, turn around and take a good look at your front door, in todays world it may be the last time you see it. Older brother, firefighter in new jersey passed on in unrelated incident january of 2001, he was spared the horrific events of 9-11. life is quick take time to laugh and help a neighbor once in a while, shame on you kristan, dont cry when they call your number.
• #9 Comment from bookmaven2005Entry Author 
  9/11/06 9:02 AM | Permalink

  Tom, in response to your frankness: Kristen Breitweiser and her late husband did vote Republican. One of the chapters in her book details their political leanings.
• #8 Comment from majbeck 
  9/9/06 3:36 PM | Permalink

  It is unfortunate that many people do not realize that the US was under attack by terrorists well before 9-11. (1998 bombing of 2 east african US embassies, the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, the first attack on the twin towers, to name a few..) The ONLY difference was and is how the leaders of the government chose to respond. I happen to beleive that if the Clinton government had stopped ordering domino's pizza and strippers for a minute, and had gone after these terrorists with even a little bit of "Shock and Awe," we may not have had to loose the people we lost on 9-11.  What upsets me even more is a widow who uses her loss to promote herself and her own political agenda. I feel for those who lost family and friends, but to use such a personal tragedy for political or monetary gain..well, that is just a little too Cindy Sheehan for me. Grief, rage understandable..entitlement? not so much
  What would those who were lost think of their loved one's actions??
• #7 Comment from frd86brnc2 
  9/8/06 8:08 PM | Permalink

  Why don't you people quit whinning, if someone wants to kill you it doesn't matter where the FBI or CIA is they are going to kill you or die trying. You may not like it but you had better thank God everyday for George Bush. If not for him theres no telling how many times this country whould have been attacked by now.
  Supercool, read my blog.
• #6 Comment from onotes 
  9/8/06 5:44 PM | Permalink

  Re: Kristen Breitweiser
  
  What a horrible, horrible person.  If her husband had not perished on that fateful day, I wonder what he would have had to say about the 9/11 widows.  
  
  This woman raises having a sense of entitlement to levels not even approached by Lisa Beamer.
  
  Jim O'Brien, Chicago