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Appalled by the most heinous acts of terror on U.S. soil, many citizens directed their numbing despair into patriotism on September 12, 2001, from a mass display of flags to donating blood and volunteering. With encouragement from the president, political and community leaders, Americans rallied together after kamikaze pilots rammed planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, possibly killing thousands. In this photo, a large American flag hangs from an expressway overpass on Chicago's Kennedy Expressway, September 12, 2001, one day after the attack by terrorists on New York City and Washington. (Sue Ogrocki/Reuters)
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