Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: 9/11 Turns Twelve

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Alan Chin in Lower Manhattan: 9/11 Turns Twelve – Reading The Pictures

Good hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.

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If there were ever a more appropriate way to mark the passing of the legions and the silencing of the trumpets, for one moment, at least, it was being around the World Trade Center. The attacks, however – if not the ongoing political fallout – are finally passing into history. I watched as parents had to explain to their children what the occasion was and why the site is important.