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"most harrowing shared experience of our lives"
pretty short life span...
I lived through the Cuban Missle Crisis, my parents lived through WW II in Nazi Concentration/Work Camps. As usual in the vacuum that is the collective memory of the US - something like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 gets raised to a level of importance light years beyond reality, or Sep 1, 1939. Rape of Nanking, or Stalingrad.
9/11 was and is a tradgedy, but that is the human condition is it not? It is proven so aptly by hundreds of episodes in the 20th century worse then 9/11, many of them within the collective living memory.
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