which said this was the first anniversary of 'the worst day in America's history'. I quickly came up with a few alternative candidates. What do the panel think?
I think it was the death of the myth of American difference. The idea that, as a country set up against tyranny of an empire, America would not be an empire itself. Of course, arguably with the Monroe doctrine and the Phillippines previously, this had disapperted many years before, but the American public could deny this to themselves until Cambodia.
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Date: 2002-09-11 07:07 am (UTC)