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“He’s in the middle of a divorce (long story) and living with Mrs.”
“Rural-road people attach the little flags to their mailboxes out by the street.”
“One side effect of the Horror seems to be an overwhelming desire to call everybody you love.”
“I think the older ladies took it better than I did.”
“Only a few businesses are open, but even the closed ones are displaying some sort of flag.”
“Nobody’s edgy or sophisticated enough to lodge the sick and obvious po-mo complaint: We’ve Seen This Before.”
“The church I belong to is on the south side of Bloomington, near where I live.”
“It was established early on that you couldn’t reach New York; 212 yields only a weird whooping sound.”
“It’s far and away the biggest flag on our street.”
“Stealing one out of somebody’s yard is clearly out of the question.”
“Sometimes it seems like nobody speaks and sometimes like everybody’s talking at once.”
“Some of the ladies reach their husbands, who are apparently all gathered around TVs and radios at their workplaces; for a while bosses are too shocked to think to send people home.”
“Some upscale people have actual poles; their flags are at half-mast.”
“Everybody pretty much has his family and neighbors and tight little circle of friends.”
“There’s actual interior tension: Nobody walks by or stops their car and says, “Hey, your house doesn’t have a flag,” but it gets easier and easier to imagine people thinking it.”
“From the door to the kitchen I remember seeing the second tower fall and being confused about whether it was a replay of the first tower falling.”
“It makes you think and do things you probably wouldn’t if watching alone, like for one thing to pray, silently and fervently, that you’re wrong about Bush, that your view of him is distorted and he’s actually far smarter and more substantial than you believe, not just some weird soulless golem or nexus of interests dressed up in a suit, but a statesman of courage and probity and … and it’s good, this is good to pray this way.”
“Like most construction guys he has to get to his job site early and was long gone by the time I got to his mom’s, which was just after the second plane hit the South Tower, meaning probably around 8:10.”
“A stranger will smile warmly at you, but there normally won’t be any of that strangerly chitchat in waiting areas or checkout lines.”
“More than a few large homes around Franklin Park or out on the east side even have enormous multistory flags hanging gonfalon-style down over their facades.”