On Tuesday
morning, September 11, 2001, most of us here on the Pacific coast, left our
homes before we knew America was under attack. Some of us with longer commutes
heard the news on our car radios. Others, like me who lived just a few blocks
from the post office, didn’t know anything was amiss in the United States until
my co-workers; unusually sullen and reserved, began arriving and talking.
In the small
Forest Grove post office, our staff included fifteen mail...
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