The images were searing. They were constant. They were real. It also seemed to many at that time those images would change everything — people, the United States and the world.

Five years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the downing of Flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania, the times have changed, but not the entire world, as some have charged. More...

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