before 9/11

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There are times that I think we Americans use 9/11 abdly. We use it to justify doing bad things. We use it for political purposes. We use commemoration of it to seek undweserved pity for ourselves or to seek personal aggrandizement.

But a story like this one is an example of how remembering those who died, and how they died, is more than that, much more. It is a remembrance of good and worhty things, a way to find hope and an example for living.

Thank you, Father Mychal Judge, for your example of how to live a good, worthy, and happy life. And thank you, NPR and Story Corps, for bringing this good man's life to the rest of us.