For me, 9/11 will always dawn bright, still and routine, and end in confusion, anger and strange anticipation. The ugly gash was also a dividing line. Those of us in government were suddenly given a vague, intimidating sense of purpose. Events ahead, for good or ill, would gather into history.
The Sept. 11 anniversary now involves reflections on the nature of tolerance, on the fragility of national unity, on the selectivity of historical memory. At the time, however, the events of Sept. 11 were primarily a national security crisis. An enemy, with minimal expenditure, had taken thousands of lives, overturned a long-standing expectation of safety and disrupted a continental economy. Given advances in technology, future attacks could be worse.
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