This was a New Yorker speaking from the heart more than 10 years later, reminding everybody, because of this trial, because the world gets to get a look at Sheikh Mohammed and Ammar al-Baluchi and Ramzi Binalshibh and the rest of them, how raw the memories of that Tuesday morning 101/2 years ago still are, and always will be in New York.

Bush standing on the rubble of the World Trade Center with his bullhorn, his great bullhorn moment.

And when he got outside, he read this statement and made you proud he is one of ours: 11, was right there with other victim family members this weekend. So Bracken, of Staten Island, who lost his sister Lucy Fishman on Sept. Of course, there is nothing remarkable about the punks he had seen inside the courtroom or the show they think they are putting on, starting with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, constantly called a “mastermind” but only looking like every unhinged, dead-eyed perp you have ever seen, the ones who always look the same on their way to the gates of hell.īut Eddie Bracken wanted to see them himself, had to see himself, didn’t want to watch on television from Brooklyn or one of the other venues where family members and friends of victims watched this trial begin to play out in military court. 11, 2001, speaking up for his dead sister and his city and even for his country. There was Eddie Bracken of Staten Island on Sunday, standing outside that courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a long way from home and a long way from Sept.

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