PHOTO: September 11, 2001

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| Tue Sep. 11, 2012 10:29 AM PDT
Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. NASA

The long view: "Nous sommes tous Américains."

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