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9/11 – passage of 15 years brings new insights

There are many articles that continue to provide us with perspective and insight as we respectfully and with continued sadness, mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

For many years there was an effort to obtain the release of the redacted “28 pages from the House Intelligence Committee’s 2002 report to Congress. As I posted July 15, 2016 – “Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), under the direction of Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA), approved publication of a newly declassified section of the 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.   Following a declassification review, the Obama Administration decided to declassify the Joint Inquiry’s only wholly classified section, commonly referred to as the “28 pages.” The Administration then sent this document, with redactions to protect sources and methods, to congressional leadership. HPSCI has posted the document on its website.”

In a continuing effort to track the release of new information – this new Esquire article that focuses on the “Falling Man” is with due warning remarkably difficult to read (but please do)  – it evokes a deep memory of what we saw that day and cannot ever forget, and what we did not see, although we knew very well the visceral fear and pain of just imagining what had been withheld. Regardless of all the events of the intervening years, 9/11 changed America in ways that for a growing population of young people not yet born or otherwise too young to recall pre 9/11 America – our transportation systems, work places, schools, surveillance of public activities, and the many facets of a kaleidoscope we can no longer twirl in our own hands, is now our collective America.

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