Nineteen committed people can change the world.

That is the frightening reality that we learned 24 years ago today, after Americans and the world watched as civilian airliners were used as piloted cruise missiles to rain terror in New York and Washington, D.C., and on the people who fought back aboard an airliner that crashed into a peaceful farm field east of Pittsburgh.

Sept. 11, 2001, is receding in time, but not in effect.

The world has accepted wars, seemingly without end. It has accepted that madmen bent on using violence as a political statement will forever be with us. The “war on terror” is not a war that is winnable in the sense that there can ever be a victory celebration, or a definitive event such as a Victory over Terror Day. There is no VT Day to join the VJ and VE days i

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