Even at a time when news is flashed around the world in moments, few events stop us in our tracks. If people remember where they were when Princess Diana died, then 9/11 has engraved itself into the consciousness of a generation so indelibly that the simple date is enough to elicit the same deep sense of shock and outrage we felt so strongly nearly a quarter of a century ago.
We remember the burning World Trade Center towers; bodies falling like rag dolls from the sky, the immense buildings, those monuments to America’s pride, collapsing into rubble.
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