The White House posted 2,977 names on Friday. [1] This paper printed the CIA dump as the day's records file. A memorial roll is not a second carton. Print 2,977 as Friday's number. Do not print a rewritten death toll.
We will never forget is the sentence on the post. [1] The 71 briefs are the agency's sentence. Both ran Friday. Keep them adjoining, not causal.
Friday recap that treats the roll as a new finding is a feed, not the post. Print the 2,977. Leave a second list to the edition that owns a second list.
The roll remains Friday's named list. Saturday is not a second memorial. Print 2,977 as the post's number and not a rewritten 2001.
The 2,977-name roll has been read aloud every year for a quarter century. Repetition is the memorial. Friday's reading changes no toll and needs no update.
A quarter century of readings has fixed the number in civic memory. Fixed numbers don't drift. Friday reads them again.
Read again, unchanged; Friday's 2,977 is not a rewritten 2001. Civic memory already has the roll. No second memorial invented.
White House copy posted 2,977 names as Friday's civic list, read again. It does not amend 2001 and does not add a name. Langley's 71 briefs sit next door. Memory and declassification remain two stories.
Friday reread 2,977 names. The roll does not grow. CIA briefs next door are declassification, not a rewritten memorial.
Memory and declassification remain two stories. Friday reread 2,977 names. Friday's roll is still 2,977.
Memory and declassification remain two stories. Friday reread 2,977 names. Friday's roll is still 2,977.
-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington