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No one person or groups of persons owns 9/11/01. Not the families of the deceased, not the grieving firemen and police officers, not Hollywood, not the GOP or the Democrats, not Karl Rove and certainly not George W. Bush.
WE, the people, own 9/11/01. It belongs to all of us. History will mark us for how we reacted to it.
Because it belongs to all of us, any of us is entitled to try and make sense of it, whether it be through essays, books, or, yes, movies. This is true irrespective of whether any or all of the rest of us ready to face what happened on that day. Leave the artists alone, we need them.
