"December 7, 1951, came and went with scant ceremony... Compare that to the wall-to-wall attention being given to the 10th anniversary of 9/11....
But there is some irony in the fact that our frenzy to memorialize is inversely proportionate to our collective capacity to extract meaning from memory....
In 1951, Americans could look back to Pearl Harbor and see its bookends in VE Day and the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri....
The war that was begun on September 11 has no bookend. We don't even know whether we are in the early, middle or late chapters - or whether we're still in the same book....
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