It is tempting - though it may not be a very fruitful approach - to analyze the attacks on the United States of America on the 11th of September 2001 semiotically: to interpret the meaning, wherever it comes from, of the Twin Towers, of New York City, of Pentagon and Washington, the grey dust, the orange balls of flame and the blue sky on that particular day. The blue sky that reminds you of what you thought on the day when you drove through the sunshine of the Nevada desert and Alan Jackson was playing 'Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)?' on the radio: How could anyone do anything like this to these nice people?!
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