The only thing missing was a sailor kissing a nurse. They waved American flags, tossed toilet paper on the lampposts, and sprayed champagne on the crowd. Instead I found several thousand people-many who were only in grade school on September 11, 2001-gathered for an impromptu rally. I told her I thought the still-open wound in lower Manhattan would be dark and tranquil at that hour, and maybe it would provide some insight into this near-perfect bookend to what had happened there a decade earlier. As soon as the president finished speaking, I told my wife I wanted to go to Ground Zero. on Monday, May 2, 2011, a little more than an hour after President Barack Obama announced that American service personnel had just hunted down, trapped, and killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden. It came from the hole in the skyline where the Twin Towers had once stood. I heard the singing as soon as I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge. Book Excerpt: Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World By: Bruce Feiler
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