Once in a generation, sometimes once in a lifetime, a singular event blindsides the entire planet
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The available account reports that once in a generation, sometimes once in a lifetime, a singular event blindsides the entire planet. The report also notes that 25 years on, does the memory of the Nine-Eleven attacks against New York's Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania fade into history or is it still as raw and vivid as on that sunny September morning?
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- 9/11 then and now: Do September 2001 attacks still shape our world? — France 24 — English
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