Commentary: Learning from Sept. 11, 2001, 1973 and 1857

When I was a 5th grader at Wasatch School in Provo, I arrived home from school one afternoon to find my mother waiting outside for me, and she was not happy.Someone from Wasatch had called to tell her that I had been unkind to a new girl, Marian Kader, daughter of Palestinian immigrants who had recently moved into our school district. Provo was decidedly not diverse in 1957 and I had never seen someone with such dark skin and black hair in person. And I had been unkind to her.Mother, a white des