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In 9/11 commemorations, an elegy for what the nation lost that day

In 9/11 commemorations, an elegy for what the nation lost that day

The services across America reflected on decades of personal grief, as well as the trauma of military defeat and squandered unity.

Shayna Jacobs, Christine Spolar and Griff Witte

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A wife told her husband about the son he never knew who had grown to be “the spitting image” of his dad.

A veteran reflected on his sacrifice in a war launched in a spirit of vengeance and ended in a haze of defeat.

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