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Pinkerton: The Hard Lessons of 9/11 

Hard to believe it’s been 24 years since 9/11. The memories are so fresh: the planes crashing into buildings, the people fleeing, the firemen running—hundreds of them to their deaths—and the bells tolling. With the passage of nearly a quarter-century, it’s worth distilling some hard lessons.

(Photos by: Spencer Platt, Wathiq Khuzaie, Alex Wong, Joe Raedle, Amel Emric, Greg Mathies