Maybe this has been raised before and forgive me if it seems a familiar question...but in light of ... everything ... since 9/11 and especially the release of the movie United 93 and overhearing more than a few people muttering things like "I'm so sick of hearing about Katrina people" -- the thought occurred:
What if the 2 airplanes that were flown into the WTC missed?
What if instead the 2 airplanes hit two public housing towers and the same number of people died, and hung from windows, and jumped and America watched as the buildings collapsed? [Assume for the sake of this hypothetical that the airplanes themselves were flights bound for the Dominican Republic (like the one that crashed in NYC in November, 2001) and those on board were mostly Dominicans]
Would the impact have been the same?
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