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Artist's conception of rebuilt World Trade Center

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The documentary Rebirth begins with a sound familiar to New Yorkers. It’s the audio theme for the “all news all the time” radio station 1010 WINS. The temperature for the city on September 11, primary day, is given. Everything sounds normal — until the soundtrack shifts to sound bites from an unfolding news story of an unimaginable magnitude. An announcer states, “A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.” A woman’s voice says in disbelief, “Oh my God, the building fell.” There is an image of papers floating downward through an ash-filled sky.

read more on Huffingtonpost.com Marcia G. Yerman: Using the 9/11 Documentary Rebirth to Repair Lives.