When Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001, I was a reporter on Long Island. It struck me, while writing dozens of obituaries and other stories of the people killed there, that their tales captured the root of the conflict between America and Islam, between the life-oriented and the avowedly antilife.
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Thomas Halaczinsky wrote about his experiences exploring the waters and islands of New York City and Long Island Sound in Archipelago New York. image: thomas halaczinsky (Photo Courtesy: Thomas Halaczinsky
Sailor Navigates New York’s Archipelago
When Thomas Halaczinsky arrived in New York from his native and reunified Germany in 1991, he was dismayed by the rundown docks and aging warehouses lining the city’s waterfronts.
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