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HOW ARE WE DOING 20 YEARS AFTER 9/11/2001?

Tomorrow is 20 years after 9/11/01, when terrorists traumatized the USA.  My wife Pearl sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to watch TV.  On that morning, she nudged me soon after American Airlines 11 flew into the North Tower of the 110-story World Trade Center.  I awoke at around 2AM Hawaii time to then see United Airlines 175 hit the South Tower. What a trauma for us, as immediately coming to mind was an incredible dinner we had in a restaurant called  Cellar in the Sky,  located inside Windows of the World at the top of the North Tower.  A very private space with 35 seats, it had a prix fixe menu hand-written on a ceramic page, and featured a guitarist.  We recalled another couple trying to sneak out the menu and being caught.  Our waiter gave us ours, and we kept it until....don't know what happened to it. There was once a time in our history when life-changing events brought our country together.  Witness the Civil War, where we finally became a country.  Sure, there