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One of the most enduring expressions from George W. Bush’s administration was the claim (or a variant) that “everything changed on September 11, 2001.” As most people on the planet watched on TV that day, 19 hijackers in four hijacked planes shocked the world by flying into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The final death toll was almost 3,000 with thousands more injured and the United States traumatized (Duffy, 2005:1).
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© 2014 Donna G. Starr-Deelen
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Starr-Deelen, D.G. (2014). Introduction. In: Presidential Policies on Terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380364_1
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