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Generational historians say that the times can change in an afternoon. This change may have occurred Saturday in Tucson, an afternoon many of us began thinking about Michael Vick and ended listening to Dr. Peter Rhee at the trauma center in Tucson. History will mark it by the president’s speech, introducing himself as “an American.” This will define him, for the first time in a long time, as “one of us,” and define ourselves as one with him as well. He did, for the moment, “make sense of that which seems senseless.” None of us can know what triggered this vicious attack, he said, “but what we cannot do is to use this occasion to turn on each other.”

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