Readers drew their own lessons from the Sept. 14 Perspective package in which 11 alumni and faculty members explained what we’ve learned from the events and aftermath of 9/11. In a comment posted at PAW Online, LEANNE TOBIAS *78 praised Christopher A. Kojm *79’s “wise words” on ­information-­sharing and coordination within and between groups. Kojm’s advice, she said, “is relevant in numerous settings, ranging from the family, to the workplace, to companies and government agencies, and between allies.”

JOHN MASON ’66 wrote that “the sad events of Sept. 11 have been used to underwrite the war in Iraq, with its ­fiction of WMDs; the erosion of civil liberty, under the peculiar use of ‘home­land’ to refer to our country; and the use of torture by Americans, with expressions of contempt for the Geneva Conventions. It is painful to contemplate.”

PETER SUEDFELD *63 summed up his view in a single sentence: “Let me quote: ‘The Constitution is not a suicide note.’”