Category: Examiner Opinion
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Reader says politics should have been put on hold
Reading the first pages of the Sept. 19 edition of the Examiner about the traumatic events at the World Trade Center was a very emotional experience. Imagine my dismay when I got to page 6 and saw John Pfefferkorn’s political advertisement. How insensitive can this man be? To make matters worse, there was also a…
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A true patriot penned our ‘God Bless America’
We have all had the pleasure of hearing, since Sept. 11, the great patriotic song "God Bless America." Mention is made that it was a lead song of Kate Smith. No mention, however, has been made of the great composer who wrote it in 1917 and released it in 1938. He was a Jewish immigrant…
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VFW asks for cards for grieving families
I would like to express my appreciation to the Freehold Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4374, Freehold, for enabling me to finally mail the big hug that I’ve needed to give our 6,000 families who lost loved ones in the attack on the United States on Sept. 11. Our veterans are working to comfort and…
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Two weeks after the terrible events of Sept. 11, most people are still trying to come to grips with what happened.
Two weeks after the terrible events of Sept. 11, most people are still trying to come to grips with what happened. Can those ugly piles of rubble at ground zero really be all that’s left of the once-proud World Trade Center twin towers — symbols of America’s economic power? Can we really have lost almost…
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Guest Column Alan J. Nicholls Behind the scenes at the Upper Freehold-Allentown Soccer League
Guest Column Alan J. Nicholls Behind the scenes at the Upper Freehold-Allentown Soccer League First, I would like to take this opportunity to bring our soccer community up-to-date with the latest developments in regard to land currently being prepared for soccer fields in the township. Ground was broken, last month, on the Van Hise tract…
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AMERICA RECOVERS
On Sept. 20 I set out to document the destruction at the World Trade Center that I had only seen through the eyes of other photographers. After several hours of walking downtown and trying unsuccessfully to get to the site, I was lucky enough to be escorted by two Port Authority police officers who allowed…
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A young girl’s tribute to the twin towers
My daughter came off the school bus yesterday (Sept. 11) crying. She was afraid for our family’s safety. She was upset that her dad was stuck in Florida and wouldn’t be home for her birthday and that something so terrible could happen so close to where we live. I tried to comfort her as much…
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Not getting to say good-bye has left emotional hole
As I was truly preoccupied with more important events of the day, I had not even seen the second plane hit the twin towers. At first glance on the newscast, I reckoned it to a freak of nature. I saw the shadow of a figure that looked like a shark in calm and beautiful tropical…
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Like all Americans, the employees of Greater Media Newspapers were shocked, saddened and angered by the tragic events of Sept. 11. And like most of our countrymen, we’ve spent many hours in the last week discussing what we, and our publications, can do to
Like all Americans, the employees of Greater Media Newspapers were shocked, saddened and angered by the tragic events of Sept. 11. And like most of our countrymen, we’ve spent many hours in the last week discussing what we, and our publications, can do to help. This week, nearly all the reporters for our publications have…
