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Where Things Stand: It’s September 11 And We’re Nearing 200,000 Dead

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Mourners gather at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, with Freedom Tower (C), in New York on September 11, 2020, as the US commemorates the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by A... Mourners gather at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, with Freedom Tower (C), in New York on September 11, 2020, as the US commemorates the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS

September 11, 2020 12:48 p.m.

Tragedy is tragedy. And while the invisible crisis our country is currently facing looks and feels and hurts differently than this day 19 years ago, the parallels of massive loss of life and the infiltration of a society-altering fear are clear.

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