- Harris-Trump debate nabs more than 67 million viewers, Nielsen says NBC News
- Analysis | How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls. The Washington Post
- 67.1 Million People Watched Harris and Trump, Outdrawing Last Debate The New York Times
- This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling The New Republic
- House Republicans lament Trump’s ‘terrible’ debate performance: ‘Let her get under his skin’ Fox News
Day: September 11, 2024
- Harris-Trump debate nabs more than 67 million viewers, Nielsen says NBC News
- The debate didn’t sway some voters CNN talked to, but others know exactly who they’re backing now CNN
- 67.1 Million People Watched Harris and Trump, Outdrawing Last Debate The New York Times
- This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling The New Republic
- Early polls say Harris won the presidential debate ABC News
- Harris-Trump debate nabs more than 67 million viewers, Nielsen says NBC News
- House Republicans lament Trump’s ‘terrible’ debate performance: ‘Let her get under his skin’ Fox News
- 67.1 Million People Watched Harris and Trump, Outdrawing Last Debate The New York Times
- Analysis | How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls. The Washington Post
- This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling The New Republic
- Harris-Trump debate nabs more than 67 million viewers, Nielsen says NBC News
- House Republicans lament Trump’s ‘terrible’ debate performance: ‘Let her get under his skin’ Fox News
- 67.1 Million People Watched Harris and Trump, Outdrawing Last Debate The New York Times
- This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling The New Republic
- Early polls say Harris won the presidential debate ABC News
- Harris-Trump debate nabs more than 67 million viewers, Nielsen says NBC News
- The debate didn’t sway some voters CNN talked to, but others know exactly who they’re backing now CNN
- House Republicans lament Trump’s ‘terrible’ debate performance: ‘Let her get under his skin’ Fox News
- Analysis | How resounding was Kamala Harris’s debate win? Let’s look at the polls. The Washington Post
- How Harris Roped a Dope The Atlantic
- An undecided swing state voter watched the debate. It moved the needle NPR
- Debate was an ‘eye opener’ in suburban Philadelphia and Harris got a closer look ABC News
- Independent voters surprise pollster with reactions to Trump’s debate performance: ‘Didn’t expect it’ Fox News
- Pundits Said Harris Won the Debate. Undecided Voters Weren’t So Sure. The New York Times
- New Hampshire undecided voters share their thoughts on first Presidential debate WMUR Manchester
DonOLD couldn’t make a deal with Putin for 37-years, why would we believe he can make any deals with Putin over Ukraine in his claimed 24-hours to resolve the war.
All he’s going to do is hand Kyiv to Putin. That’s not a deal, that’s a gift. https://t.co/zQNjLRugDd
— KT “Special CIA Operation” (@KremlinTrolls) September 11, 2024
NEW | The IDF Southern Command’s fire control commander said that Hamas no longer functions as a conventional military organization but added that the IDF requires another year to fully destroy Hamas’ military and governance capabilities.
Hamas information captured by the IDF… pic.twitter.com/4zk76IrElY
— Critical Threats (@criticalthreats) September 11, 2024
Now the Day is Over
At the close of many an evening at the Episcopal church camp I attended in Rhode Island in the late 1950s, we gathered in a barn chapel for vespers, prayers of thanks for another day, and often closed with a gentle singing of the most seductively peaceful hymn ever composed.
“Now the day is over,” it begins, in a lilting, soft melody.
Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening, Steal acrossd the sky.
The hymn’s “sweet musical cadence,” wrote a Christian admirer, “invites calm worshipful prayer.”
I’m not sure why, but my memory of it from some 65 years ago bubbled up from some deep cortext iding place as I read an account of the 9/11 memorial service today in New York, where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump seemed to warmly shake hands in a momentary suspension of their disgust for each other.
As well they might, at such a solemn moment, replicated at Shanksville, Pa., and the Pentagon, where hundreds more souls perished in the total of 2,977 who were murdered 23 years ago. The pain persists among the survivors, the families and friends who lost loved ones, of course, and intensely in nooks like the New York Fire Department, which lost 343 “firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, civilian employees — and the chaplain of the department” on September 11, 2001, according to the NYPD. Another 377 “have died from fatal 9/11-related illnesses in the years since the attack, according to the department, more than 16 times the number who died in the line of duty as they responded to the attacks (23).”
Add to that the thousands of U.S. and allied military service members and counterterrorism agents of the CIA and FBI—not to mention innocent civilians—who died or were grievously wounded in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria triggered in large measure by the 9/11 attacks—all honored in various ways today.
Now the day is over.
Comfort ev’ry suff’rer, Watching late in pain
But threats remain, decades later. “The lights are blinking red” for another oncoming terrorist spectacular, say well informed former senior dedense and CIA officers.
Those who plan some evil, From their sin restrain, the hymn prays.
In a thoughtful essay published today, former CIA operations office Douglas London wondered whether, or how much, the U.S. strategy of “decapitation strikes” against terrorist leaders have paid off.
“The capability is an invaluable tool, but just one in a necessarily holistic approach,” he wrote. “Its overuse could bring diminishing returns and wreak dangerous, generational consequences akin to those stemming from our support of the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan.”
Or as The Band put it in “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”:
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yakeee laid him in his grave, I swear by the mud below my feet.
You can't raise a Kane back up When he's in defeat.
And so we all pray:
When the morning wakens Then may I arise Pure, and fresh, and sinless In Thy holy eyes There are many, many lovely versions of Now the Day of Over available online. I like this very plain one, which aligns with my ancient memories of vespers in the barn chapel. No chorale is listed.