Reflections on the Sept. 11 Attacks
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Twenty years ago this week, terrorists\\xa0struck the United States in the largest attack of its kind on American soil. The Sept. 11 attacks were a shock to the world and a turning point for the nation.\\xa0In the subsequent decades, the federal government reoriented its intelligence gathering infrastructure, waged the Global War on Terror and shifted its thinking and resources around administrative power and function.\\xa0
Over four episodes, GovExec Daily examines the ways the attacks have changed government and how government responded. First, people who were there on that day\\u2014current and former Government Executive staffers, Pentagon workers and others\\u2014explain what they experienced\\xa0in the immediate aftermath of that fateful day.
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