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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.

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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