Richard Beaubien spent time this summer at the 9/11 memorial at Logan Airport (he has more photos here).

Earlier: The flag at Gate 32.

Copyright Richard Beaubien. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Karl reads how Peabody police officers got 9/11 declared a day of overtime in exchange for drug testing, says he doesn't get it:

... I can see NYC police (and fire, and paramedics) fighting for such a thing since, you know, since they were the actual people who a) helped at the site and b) lost hundreds of their peers that day. But Peabody? ...

With absolutely nothing else to talk about, the right wing has, of course, decided to raise the question of why Deval Patrick hates America. David Bernstein creates a chronology of the frenzy following Patrick's 9/11 speech yesterday and puts his use of the phrase "failure of human understanding" in its WWJD context (Patrick has used the phrase before).

Let's see: Your brother was one of the airline captains killed on 9/11 and every year for the past four years you've spoken at the annual memorial at the State House.

But this year, you're running for Congress - gasp, as a Republican - and fancy that, the "non-partisan" commission in charge of the memorial won't let you speak - but does invite the chairman of your Democratic opponent's campaign (who happens to be married to the outgoing congressman who, surprise, is the keynote speaker).

Even in Massachusetts, could somebody really be that politically petty? Maybe not. Maybe they're just idiots.

Joe Keohane reports he was on the Red Line this morning when the conductor announced the train would be stopping at Porter to remember the victims of 9/11:

... So he stopped at Porter, opened the doors, and we sat there for a few minutes looking at each other. ...

Then the conductor came out and gave a speech about 9/11, Keohane reports, wondering if this was just his train or if trains all over the (unprepared for terrorism) T system.

Michael Burstein, who grew up in New York, reports:

This morning, as I was taking the T to work, I was reading the New York Times. On pages A14-A15, they revisited some of the families who lost loved ones in the attacks, in the same "Portraits of Grief" style they used to eulogize the victims in the months afterwards. I found myself uncontrollably and spontaneously bursting into tears. I had to stop reading. ...

Lewis Forman reports from the Blue Line:

... This morning you could feel the silence in the train from Maverick Station. Most people reading today's papers about the events of 5 years ago. There was an eerie calm as people made their way out of the State St. Station into the cool of the morning. ...

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