Alan Chin on “the 9/11 Decade”: Beyond Pushpins On A Calendar

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Alan Chin on “the 9/11 Decade”: Beyond Pushpins On A Calendar – Reading The Pictures

“Though anniversaries may just be pushpins on a calendar, they are key markers of our individual and collective lives.” Photographer Alan Chin on loss and change through the 9/11 decade, from New York to Afghanistan, Iraq to New Orleans, and back again.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/09/pushpins-on-a-calendar/

The American Dream was not killed on September 11, 2001. As many said at the time, it was an opportunity, tragic and momentous, for the finer aspirations of American idealism to reemerge with passionate exceptionalism. Ten years later, those hopes lie shattered in the dust not of the towers, but of water-boarding, Predator drones, kill teams, rendition, and a national security state.