September 2021
September 11 from 1981 to 2031
By Richard GoldbergAmerica has been learning and forgetting the lessons of 2001 for decades. It's now in the midst of forgetting them again. Will the same result follow?
“Where were you on 9/11?”
The question, asked for years in the wake of the terrorist attacks, is rarely posed any more. In fact, except for a few moments in the days leading up to the 20th anniversary this past weekend, I can’t recall the last time someone asked me that, or the last time I put it to someone else.
September 2001 now lies an astonishing twenty years in the past. We know what happened on the day; everybody agrees on that. But what happened in the intervening decades has become a matter of dispute.
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