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How My Perspective Has Changed Since 9/11/2001
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How My Perspective Has Changed Since 9/11/2001

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Jim Buie
Sep 11, 2021
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Reviewing old emails from September, 2001, I think how understandably hysterical yet how thoughtful we were. Not surprisingly, we believed then that the 9/11 attacks were a bigger historical event than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which launched massive American mobilization and involvement in World War II. We were clearly wrong about that.

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