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Harris Blackwood: Let’s rekindle the American spirit that followed 9/11

Smoke billows from the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike near Kearny, N.J. - photo by GENE BOYARS

0911class2 — Smoke billows from the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike near Kearny, N.J. - photo by GENE BOYARS

This week, it will be 18 years since a group of thugs hijacked commercial jetliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and, thanks to some brave folks, into a field in Pennsylvania. Otherwise, it might have struck either the White House or U.S. Capitol.