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NATHAN&&partner=rssnyt &lt;p&gt;It was the day when the unreal
became the unimaginable. Sept. 11, 2001, the crystalline morning
when planes dropped from the skies and toppled the World Trade
Center and punctured a hole in the Pentagon, was a demarcation
point that shattered the security of the country and introduced
a nebulous and virulent enemy previously unfamiliar to most
citizens. Nearly 3,000 people died that morning, the vast
majority of them in the gnarled rubble of the Lower Manhattan
towers, others at the Pentagon and in a rural Pennsylvania
field. A numbed country with red-rimmed eyes came to understand
the ugly menace of terrorism. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The echoes of
that horrific day have radiated outward in myriad directions,
indelibly altering peoples concept of what it means to feel
safe in the modern world