"From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story."

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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

— Jon Meacham