After the Charlie Hebdo attack, I wrote in a column:
A year after the firebombing of Charlie Hebdo’s offices in 2011, the publication’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, said in an interview, “I am not afraid of retaliation. I have no kids, no wife, no car, no credit. It perhaps sounds a bit pompous, but I prefer to die standing than live on my knees.”
Lent even more eloquence after his murder, those words deserve to be etched in marble somewhere.
A generous reader took those words to heart and had them etched in marble and sent to NR’s office. Whoever you are, thanks so much. And here it is:






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