| The echoes of Sept. 11, 2001, clatter through American life with continuing, tangible effect.
In many smaller towns and cities, shiny new fire trucks are the civic antidote to uncertainty — and the practical need to spend what the Department of Homeland Security dishes out. Other things Americans carry from that day are tiny and poignant, like Rick Edmond’s flashlight, always on hand against a return of the darkness that he remembers in the corridors of the Pentagon.
Ideas have been amplified and altered by time, war and ideology into things never known or thought about. What does that head scarf say about where your loyalties lie? Who walks with the dead from Iraq and Afghanistan and tells the stories of what they believed in life and why they died?
Some echoes define a country at five years in ways many Americans have stopped even thinking about, because they are just life now. Here are five people in five cities — all of them uncertain in different ways about where they have come to, but resolved to some action or declaration on the nation’s road forward. |
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