I will never forget Richard Clarke's opening statement at the 9/11 Commission Hearings. I hadn't realized until he spoke, how much the country needed to hear someone apologize for the failures that led to what happened on 9/11. His heartfelt and humble apology was healing and it was in sharp contrast to what we had become so accustomed to from other administration officials.
Until he spoke directly to the victims' families that day, all we heard was talk of killing and war. Talk of revenge rather than justice. Whenever they spoke, I felt a foreboding sense of hopelessness and knew that nothing could stop them from the path they were on to create more victims, more bloodshed and heartbreak and hatred, and more reason for those who wanted to do us harm to justify their own irrational, vengeful and murderous actions.
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