Word: heroism
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...also recall the incredible unity, selflessness and heroism that was evident all across America and in Lower Manhattan that day, and in the days and weeks that followed...
...that mattered. Our great challenge, I think, is to keep those positive aspects of civic unity alive. I do think people remember how we were able to come together when we needed to, and I think that resonates on this fifth anniversary. It reminds us of our goodness, our heroism, and our capacity for compassion...
...terror. And how diminished is the movie industry's response to it. Hollywood has produced just two films that are directly about the conflict, and both deal with the immediate response to the al-Qaeda assault. Paul Greengrass' United 93, released in April, dramatized the commotion and heroism on the one hijacked plane that didn't reach its landmark target. Now Oliver Stone has directed World Trade Center, Andrea Berloff's script about two Port Authority cops who were among the last of 20 people saved from the Twin Towers wreckage...
...World Trade Center - that an evil action can provoke an opposite and heroic reaction - is a central or even appropriate message to take from the events of 9/11. Surely the larger lesson learned from that day is that other men, all over the world, took inspiration not from the heroism of the rescuers in New York or the passengers flying over Pennsylvania, but from the 19 hijackers - the twisted brilliance of their scheme and their willingness to sacrifice their lives to make a political and, as they saw it, religious statement...
...There's a roiling world of germane topics beyond the ones raised in United 93 and World Trade Center - stories of horror and heroism worth telling. Get to it, Hollywood. Sometimes the best way to contribute to the war effort is to explain how complex and terrible...