I had graduated with my PhD and was in my first year of post-doctoral studies when this happened. A friend who had graduated 6 months ago had recently moved to NY so we were desperately trying to get in touch with her that day.
At the time, people were focused on the economic destruction that the terrorists inflicted. But I think the 10 years have demonstrated that the terrorists won not by making americans financially poorer, but by turning them against each other.
Fear does a lot of things, but I never thought it was all-consuming.
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