Memorial Hole<\/a>, as The Onion put it); I’ll try to post some photos from the event, especially for you out-of-towners who wonder what things look like nowadays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may or may not know that I have a 9\/11 tattoo on my right arm. I got it the Sunday after the attacks. It’s not particularly exciting, as tattoos go. In fact, my artist was a little bummed that I wanted a dull, blocky font, rather than the flourishing cursive he was planning to … <\/p>\n
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