From today's "Ask the White House":

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Jim, from South Carolina writes:

I want to share one of my memories of September 11th with you. I remember it was such a beautiful day that day. The sky was so blue and it seemed to be unreal this could be happening. Do you remember this as well whereyou were on Sept. 11th?

Harriet Miers

Yes, Jim, I remember it just like you do. As I said, I was in Florida with the President, and it was a really beautiful day, very peaceful. And I remember thinking how unreal and despicable it was that anyone could fly a plane filled with innocent people into a building full of innocent people.

We don't want to belabor this too much, but on this, the eve of the third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we would like to call for a moratorium on all reminiscences that rely on what a fucking beautiful day it was. Yeah, it was a really nice day. And then a bad thing happened. You sort of have to be three years old to think that's ironic. Let's honor the victims by not dwelling on the weather.

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