BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
Henry David Thoreau once said, “The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.”
A lot of heroes came out of the rubble of September 11, 2001. Many of them are no longer with us. And a number of people had their own impressions about the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Our president at the time of the 9/11 bombings had a popularity rating of nearly 90 percent. George W. Bush spoke about the attacks: “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”
Then British Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together."
