Deep Read: 25 years 9/11 – Why Europe and America cannot detach from each other
Our author experienced the terrorist attacks in New York up close. At the time, Europe and the USA came together - today the country has become alien to him. A personal reapproach.
A college student, Thuc Doan Nguyen-Brophy, suppressed a traumatic memory for nearly 25 years. On 11 September 2001, she filmed the World Trade Center's twin towers engulfed in flames from her apartment in Lower Manhattan. The footage was only retrieved last year and donated to the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero. Nguyen-Brophy had avoided watching the tape, fearing it would show people jumping to their deaths from the burning buildings.
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