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National Edition Opinion cover for September 11, 2014 - What Obama’s response to Sept. 11 reveals (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)

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We The People

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A fire burns on Wiseman Island in Jefferson, Oregon. Firefighters in Marion County say the state-owned island in the Santiam River is expected to burn for several days. Because firefighters cannot reach the site, the state Fish and Wildlife Department let it burn. (jefferson fire district via associated press)

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Rich Guse of the College Place, Washington, Fire Department works a wildfire site. (associated press/walla walla union-bulletin)

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Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper Endicott look out the window of a car as they leave the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight near the Texas-Mexico border. (AP Photo)

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Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Mission, Texas. Since illegal immigration spiked in the Rio Grande Valley this summer, the Border Patrol has dispatched more agents, the Texas Department of Public Safety has sent more troopers and Texas Gov. Rick Perry deployed as many as 1,000 guardsmen to the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Dr. Robert Sewell, above, writes of his son's life-threatening bout with the rare hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).

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"No one ever became a revered historical figure by accident," writes Armstrong Williams, above, posing beside a sculpture of Nelson Mandela.

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FILE- In this June 4, 2010 file photo, a worker picks up blobs of oil with absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, in New Orleans, La., that BP acted recklessly and bears most of the responsibility for the oil spill. The ruling exposes BP to about $18 million in civil fines under the Clean Water Act. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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1. JETS FLIGHT CREW - New York Jets cheerleaders during a football game against the New York Giants in East Rutherford, N.J. on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden galvanized the press and jolted the public when he vowed to pursue the Islamic State "to the gates of Hell" during an appearance at a New Hampshire shipyard Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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A team of Baytown, Texas, firefighters provided a little extra support for the grieving family of an Air Force veteran who died of a heart attack last week. (KHOU)

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Soldiers prepare a SKED litter during a medical evacuation class at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Aug. 8, 2014. (U.S. Army National Guard)

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Rockets propelled by RD-180 engines transport U.S. national security satellites to space. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Abby Brockway waves from atop a tripod erected on train tracks to a pair of engines passing on an adjacent track Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Everett, Wash. About a dozen demonstrators blocked the tracks at a Burlington Northern Santa Fe yard to protest oil and coal export terminals in the Northwest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)