I just got news that a friend of mine, who is also an NRO reader, became a father for the first time when his wife gave birth to a little girl two days ago — on September 11. He writes:

I hope you’ll take joy in our good news. We find it especially hopeful that she was born on a day normally (and appropriately) reserved for sadness, mourning, and not a little indignation. Those things are real, this experience says to me, but so are other things, and they are just as important and more enduring.