Images of 9/11 and What they Mean

What do the images from Sept. 11, 2001 say about America? David Friend has studied Sept. 11th photographs and tells The World’s Lisa Mullins what they reveal after the passage of time. Friend is an editor of Vanity Fair magazine and author of “Watching The World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11.”

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