Life in the post-9/11 U.S.

What was the underlying thought that brought us into churches, burned us with the desire to sing 'God Bless America', and forced us to cross lines like the separation of church and state that just days before we had been adamantly fighting to maintain? Yet, for all that wall building, it was our own united congress that broke forth into the song God Bless America on the Capitol stairs.

Amongst New Yorkers, especially the population of blue-collar workers affected most by the tragedies (firemen, police and rescue personnel) Roman Catholicism was the most prevalent faith. Candlelight vigils, last rites, and picture memorials sprung up almost instantaneously as this group collectively struggled with its grief in a distinctively Catholic display of mourning and faith.

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