A gentle reminder of why we fight

More public officals question the raising of the threat levels:

"We ought to be doing these things only in special, urgent situations," Washington Mayor Anthony A. Williams said after the government closed a street between the Capitol and the train station and talked about further expansion of a security zone for Congress.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.'s nonvoting delegate to Congress, added with heavy sarcasm: "Close down all the streets. Close down the city. You can make it really safe."

"We are fighting to preserve security and freedom," she went on, "not one or the other."