Editorial: Truth behind Sept. 11 should not be put aside
By Daily Bruin Staff
July 25, 2004 9:00 p.m.
Who would have guessed on that somber Tuesday in 2001 that
answers to the questions everyone was asking could be had for a
mere $10?
Yet today, nearly three years later, the stories of Sept. 11,
2001 ““ its heroes, villains and the missed opportunities that
could have prevented it ““ sit alongside discounted cookware
and sporting goods as the top seller on Amazon.com.
The 567 pages of the Sept. 11 Commission’s report are the
most encompassing perspective of the attacks to date. The citations
and endnotes alone span a full 116 pages.
The mammoth collection of conclusions can’t be converted
into a sound bite on the evening news because there are no easy
answers.
Too often the complexity and context of major events are washed
away by the barrage of modern news coverage.
This cannot happen to Sept. 11.
Those who witnessed the tragedies of that day, in person or
through the countless replays since, owe it to themselves and the
attacks’ victims to learn the facts.
Images of that day are ingrained into the minds of an entire
generation. The truth should be as well.
