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No seriously. We need to get past this hero dealth cult worship. Not all dead/injured people are heros. Most of the annointed saints of 911 were in fact ordinary people who didn't know what was happening and couldn't do anything about it. 99.99% of Americans were not really involved in it in any way and 'harrowing' is really in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? I mean if by 'harrowing' you mean sitting in your office watching TV and crashing CNN's website - ok that was harrowing. It particularly sucked if you were flying that day and had to figure out some other way to get home.
But let's face facts. 9/11 has been merchandised about as far as it's going. The widdows and orphans are milionaires, the statues have been cast, the flags and ribbon magnets and whatnot and America can get back to thinking about NYC what it believed on 9-10, that NYC is largely a hated collection of commies, queers, foreigners, liberals, lesbians, artists, Jews, black people and other undesireables.
So I would have done it like a comedy. MMMmaybe a dark comedy.
