Josh Freed: Trip down memory lane often paved with falsehoods
What were you doing on 9/11 — the day of the World Trade Center bombing?
You probably remember it with unusual clarity: How you found out, who was with you, where you were.
Yet you’re probably wrong about much of it.
In a study done days after the bombing, a New York professor surveyed more than 3,000 people about how they spent the day. Then she asked them the identical questions one year later — and almost half the answers had changed.
Soon after the bombing, one typical woma
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