I was pleasantly surprised that on two consecutive days, Oct. 9 and 10, there appeared replies of two separate gentlemen to my Sept. 27 letter regarding the events of 9/11.

The independently owned, Washington, D.C.-based "American Free Press" (www.americanfreepress.net), in its Oct. 5 issue, contains an interesting article on the same subject.

In an article, "Understanding Why Propaganda Trumps Truth on 9-11" nationally syndicated columnist and former editor at The Wall Street Journal, Paul Craig Roberts, makes it understandable why so few people are willing to challenge the official version of that national disaster.

Reducing a full-page article to its basic proposition, the premise is that because there is still in the general population a sufficient loyalty to "truth," that is, that while we may not be averse to little lies almost every day of the week, we are very averse to telling a big lie. We unwittingly extend our unwillingness to do such a thing to those in high office and believe in our heart of hearts that "they simply wouldn't do that." They simply wouldn't lie to us.

Then, as the media give us a constant barrage of the big lie, we become emotionally wedded to it, and reject across the board even clearly documented facts that disprove it.

Referring to yet another letter in this column in which the writer basically dismisses everything I wrote with a one liner, "Get a grip, Mr. Gregory," and then adds that anything on the Internet is open to question, you see the conflict reduced to its lowest terms. I rest my case. Hopefully others will continue the search for "truth."

David E. Gregory Sr.

Belgrade