Beverly Eckert
Late Thursday night, Ms. Eckert died in a plane crash near Buffalo.
Her public life ran between two calamities, seven and a half years apart. But that life hardly was defined by them.
What distinguished Ms. Eckert — and many of the other 9/11 families — was a civil refusal to settle for platitudes from government.
Ms. Eckert’s penetrating gaze fell on everything from building codes that left the skyscrapers without enough stairways for emergency evacuations, to a system of national intelligence that seemed to have a hard time passing e-mail messages from one agency to another.
It was truth-seeking, in service to the nation.
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1 comment:
Very sad.
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