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A National Scar

by David Kurtz
09.11.08 | 2:29 pm

Paul Rieckhoff: Seven years later, why is there still a hole at ground zero?

M.J. Rosenberg talks about how we mourn not just the victims of 9/11, but the country we lost that day.

Bernard Avishai discusses how the next President might recover that past.

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