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Ex-U.S. President Bush Remembers 9/11 Through Exhibit of His Art
The exhibit features colorful 9/11-era paintings, with Bush in half the works and the American flag recurring throughout, officials said.
- On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the 2001 attacks, President Bush opened an art exhibit at the Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas, featuring paintings inspired by the tragedy.
- Bush has "returned to this defining moment in American history with brush and canvas, painting the symbols, the people, and the embraces that have stayed with him since," the exhibit's introduction says. The works emphasize resolve and unity.
- Paintings feature the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and the Stars and Stripes. Student Anna Catherine Duplantis, 17, said the art is "raw" and "captures the emotions" in ways that connect her to events before she was born.
- Educator Farran Burnette told AFP, "Looking at the paintings I felt like not just remembering all that happened, but remembering that unity that came." Visitors noted the creator's former presidency gives the works "a different kind of weight."
- The exhibit follows previous collections dedicated to veterans of Bush's post-2001 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Officially 2,977 people were killed in the attacks, with thousands more deaths since linked to 9/11-related illnesses.
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