Dear friends around the world:The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have created it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will never treat each other this way again.

The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
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Unknowncountry.com’s staff artist has a great talent, and, like all of us, he has been deeply saddened and moved by the attack on America. He has responded with this eloquent and powerful artwork, and we are proud that we have the chance to display it. To see more of Dana’s art, click here.

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Congress is working late tonight on a declaration of war which will probably be similar to the act passed in 1991 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

Rep. Dave Weldon, (R-Fla.) is preparing a declaration, and congressional leaders are in contact with the White House about it. Representative Weldon believes that he will have enough information to identify the correct countries to include in it by tomorrow. The countries involved could include Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and others. A specific declaration against a person, which is unusual but legally possible, could be made against Osama bin Laden.
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It has been revealed that one passenger on the hijacked jet that crashed near Pittsburgh called his father from the plane, using his cell phone. He described the hijacking, and when he was told about the airplanes that had just crashed into the World Trade Center, he dropped the phone. When he picked it up again, he told his father that the male passengers had voted to try to overcome the hijackers.
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