 rising from the World Trade Center as a version of that horror. As I heard the scholar John Dower observe, the use of the term 'Ground Zero' in New York is an unconscious appropriation of the authentic Ground Zeros in Japan. That is why 9/11 traumatized us out of all proportion to the scale of destruction, which, while tragic, was hardly world-historic."</blockquote>
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Or put another way:  With the help of those camera-ready images, those unbearable shots of the two towers crumbling, and then crumbl