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What’s the Best 9/11 Song? (opens the original)
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I don’t have a huge mental catalog of “9/11 songs,” as a genre.The two country songs that spring to mind are Alan Jackson’s Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), which is maudlin and ignorant,1 or the late Toby Keith’s Courtesy of the Red White and Blue (The Angry American), which is arrogant and ignorant.2</a
The Hardest, Longest Race (opens the original)
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If my friend Eric Moskowitz agrees to tell you about his day, you'd better strap in. It doesn’t matter whether the story is about how he arrived at dinner, or who’s babysitting his kids, you’ll get his route and the people he bumped into along the way or the babysitter’s parents names, along with where she goes to college, how she came to choose that institution and her major, and possibly something about the childhood trauma from which she is recovering. In his newspaper days, he’d give you not
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