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            <text>Sitting in my favorite chair in my living room in Upstate New York.  Just watching the morning news with Katie Couric and gang.</text>
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            <text>I am still struggling to come to terms with this terrible attack.  It is now January 2004.  Having served in the military, as have many of my own family and relations, and with 1 family member serving right now, a sense of resignation that whatever the reason for the attack, as well as what may happen to the world community as a result of it, we have every right, even a responsiblity, to seek out our attackers.  Justice will be served, just as surely as we live and breath.</text>
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