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On the morning of September 11, 2001, the world was startled by the televised images of planes hitting New York City’s World Trade Center. As those images, and the images and sounds of the subsequent collapse of the two towers, played over and over again that day, shock and disbelief were replaced by the sense on the part of many that the world had changed irrevocably.

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Hedges, I. (2015). Conclusion. In: World Cinema and Cultural Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465122_10

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