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“I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently.” [Darleen Click]

So said Michael Shulan, creative director of the museum at Ground Zero when he wanted to exclude the iconic Tom Franklin photograph. Too kitschy and “rah-rah America.” Eventually, chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three different angles of the flag-raising scene. “Several images undercut the myth of ‘one iconic moment,’ Ramirez said, and suggest instead