Is this how we imagined it?
Ten years have passed since the warm September morning that became the most devastating day in the history of the United States. It is hardly possible to bring ourselves back to that moment and remember exactly how we felt. We recall where we were, to be sure. Who we were talking to. What we had for breakfast that morning, and what plans we cancelled that evening. But ten years removed from the abject horror we faced that day, the fact is that the terror, grief, and overpowering vulnerability we experienced have, to our relief, faded into memory.
Still, imagine what was on your mind as we watched those terrible events unfold and began the long process of picking up the pieces. For many Americans, retribution was high on the list, and justifiably so. Out of the literal and figurative dust emerged one man who came to embody all the evil of September 11: the man who choreographed the massacre and rejoiced in its aftermath, Osama bin Laden. Many of us had never heard his name before, and many of us didn’t care. The crosshairs of a nation had descended upon him, and he deserved all the wrath we could muster.
Imagine now that you were given the chance to see into the future, to glimpse the moment when victory was achieved and Osama was finally dispatched. What would this moment look like?
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