One night last week I had fallen asleep watching television. I awoke in a sweat, as the local nightly news played the phone recording of a woman trapped in the World Trade Center. She realized she was going to die. She started screaming and yelling and crying. And then she died. This was the most disturbing television experience of my life.

The US government will not allow the American press to photograph the coffins of dead American soldiers returning to what was once our country.