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A reminder of post-9/11 unity
Aug. 11, 2006

 

In the days immediately following 9/11, a sense of unity and goodness arose from the ashes and the evil of the World Trade Center attack. Filmmaker Oliver Stone hopes his new movie will remind people of that feeling.

"There's too much fear today," Stone says. "The beauty of that day was these men and women overcame that fear and fought back. I think that's been lost in a lot of politics, from both the right and the left. I think we''ve overreacted with the wrong war in the wrong place. That's why we''ve had more death, more war, more terror, five years down the road.

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