First Words
…thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician
by Glenn Feole, M.D.
"Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy
laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote
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September 11, 2014 Thursday
September 11… thirteen years ago, and a time of grief and remembrance for me…for us all. My only consolation today was a moving article in the New York Times (some of it is scanned in below):
There were 3,051 children who lost a parent that day and about 300 of them were in kindergarden. 100 of them are now 18 years old and starting college, tuition free with full scholarships from the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund which was formed a week after the attacks.
I remember the feeling of love and compassion in the time just following 9/11... so many Americans reached out, wondering how they could help. This fund was created with such generosity and compassion, initially with the help of President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole. There were over 20,000 donors.
There were 3,051 children who lost a parent that day and about 300 of them were in kindergarden. 100 of them are now 18 years old and starting college, tuition free with full scholarships from the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund which was formed a week after the attacks.
I remember the feeling of love and compassion in the time just following 9/11... so many Americans reached out, wondering how they could help. This fund was created with such generosity and compassion, initially with the help of President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole. There were over 20,000 donors.
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