There have now been 15 September 11ths since the one we call simply 9/11, that day when the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center were hit by airplanes being used as missiles and crashed to the ground, killing almost 3,000 people. We call the site "ground zero," which started as the military designation for the place where a nuclear bomb detonates, its effects spreading out for hundreds of miles. Now the phrase is so associated with this epoch-changing event and place, people may assume that's just what it means. And while there was no literal blast spreading far beyond the towers, certainly there were far-reaching effects: 9/11 initiated a new era in American military intervention and the frustratingly dangerous and out-of-kilter world we live in.
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