Still Feeling the Effects of 9/11 12 Years Later

Date Posted: September 12, 2013

Posted In: Discussion, Ideas,

From KWMU: The September 11 terrorist attacks were a tragedy unlike anything the United States had experienced. They set the nation on a new path and their ramifications, both big and small, are still felt today, twelve years on.

There are the obvious consequences: thousands of people who died that day, two wars, the Patriot Act, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. And then there are the more subtle and pervasive ones: our mental state, how Muslims are perceived in America. Even our architecture has changed.

On the twelfth anniversary of 9/11, host Don Marsh discussed the more subtle consequences with psychologist Ron Scott, architect Angelo Arzano (now of HOK), and Faizan Syed, the director of the Counsel on American Islamic Relations in St. Louis.

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