Amidst many aspects from the 9/11 attacks in the United States of America,
one can find an interesting effort to select which events can and need to be
remembered, and which one can and need to be forgotten. Such an effort
might be considered a natural response for such a catastrophic, traumatic
event. Moreover, trauma demands time to be faced, and such time depends
upon each individual‘s response but it can also be applied to the attempt of
a national response to this trauma. This current study attempts to show the
relationship between memory and selection of facts, trauma and time, by
comparing and constrasting common characteristics expressed in all sort of
manifestations such as photographies, monuments, documentaries, literary
works as well as the influence they may have in one another.
