Calm Down

Calm Down

9/11 began 20 years ago. When did it end?

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Ben Dreyfuss
Sep 11, 2021
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In 2006, I was driving across the country and pulled into a gas station in Utah and snapped this photo. It was surreal even then. What was the gas station employee going to tell me if I asked the cashier for more details about the terrorist threat level? If the threat level had been red, would all the gas station cashiers in the country have received a …

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