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On September 11, 2001, America was shattered by four coordinated terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and forever altered the nation’s trajectory. Flights hijacked into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania sparked a decade-long war in Afghanistan, the longest in U.S. history. Air travel became militarized, surveillance expanded under the Patriot Act, and public trust in government eroded over time. The day also ignited a wave of xenophobia and conspiracy theories, reshaping foreign policy, media narratives, and everyday language — leaving a legacy of trauma, transformation, and enduring division.

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