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9/11 and the war on terror

The History Hour

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The World Trade Center Bombing

The president sat inside the class room with a group of seven and eight year olds as they did reading exercises. At the same time, white house officials were outside in a holding room watching the first t v pictures of flames consuming the to of one of the towers. "My mind flashed to the fear that must have been in the pass es mind," he says.

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