It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate - a conscious part of our days - and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history.
Sept. 11 attacks still elicit myriad emotions
Nearly seven years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the question of when it’s time to move on — both as individuals and as a nation — still hovers over the tragedies.
Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 7:15 p.m. CDT;
updated 8:09 p.m. CDT, Sunday, September 7, 2008
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