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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.
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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 01:57 PM

    @ AJCalhoun

    You took a brave stand. The mob was forming and clanging their shovels and were ready to disinter Helms and quarter the corpse and you started clanging Donne's bell.

    Incivility does seem viral. When we base our behavior on those who debase us, we are the thing that hates us.

    Howard Zinn once talked about the cruelty he saw in the "Good War," on both sides. It's not tit for tat. It's not even an eye for an eye. It's two extended families for an extended families. Today, it's two countries for two towers.

    —bigguns Read bigguns's other letters

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