Memory of attack still feels like yesterday
Kerri Thoreson
Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, which claimed nearly 3,000 everyday American lives. And life as we knew it was changed forever. In those 23 years, I’ve gone through U.S. airport security lines where armed soldiers stood guard. I’ve been subjected to searches of my body and my belongings.
The horror of Sept. 11, 2001, should not be reduced to rhetoric or symbolism. Those horrific images, both print and electronic, should be kept fresh in all of our minds. Those who died were real people, with real families, who were murdered by terrorists. And those are real people wearing the uniform of our armed forces, still fighting for freedom on foreign soil this very moment.
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