2 Month Anniversary of the WTC attack

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How has your life changed? Are you doing anything differently? Did you change as a person?

I feel a lot more serious now. It is really hard to be very "happy" and up. I feel a new tenderness for my family, my children and my husband. I want to just wrap them all around me and crawl under a mountain until it is safe to come out. I feel a need to draw together with people I love. I keep playing that image over and over in my mind, and the anguish of those peoples' families echoes inside my head. I look at people who seem the same, and I want to shake them out of their complacency, don't they know the whole world is different now, don't they know there is no such thing as normal now, don't they know we have changed probably forever? But I don't really know how they feel inside. Be gentle, I tell myself, we all shatter in different places. I pray to God for strength and for mercy.

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), November 11, 2001

Answers

Are inocendce is forever lost .One thing that hit me hard was being to afraid to take the kids out trick or treating , and thinking the baby will never know what life was like before 9/11 .I am VERY mad at these slim .I am standing behind are men and woman fighting for are freedom and praying that some day things will be back to normal.I moved my family to the country to be safer from the city .Now where do I move ?

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), November 11, 2001.

Melissa, It's strange, but I've found the opposite to be true. The little things that used to aggravate me haven't as much since then. I've really been able to focus on the important stuff and tell my family and friends how much I care about them. I am more forgiving and trying to align my life better. We can't control the world, but we can try to do what we can in our little corner of it.

-- Ann Markson (tngreenacres@hotmail.com), November 11, 2001.

I treat each day as it is a gift from God. Enjoy the little things and treat each person as you want to be treated. It is so sad that it took this kind of tragedy to make people aware of how they treat others. On the other hand, I am scared when I get the mail, when I see crop duster and low flying planes. I still see the fighter jets in the air,just not as many or as close.Love like there is no tomorrow.God Bless

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), November 11, 2001.

I tend to agree more with Ann's view. I was a pretty tolerant person before but think I' even more so now. I've seen that more in others, too. More people holding doors for one another. More acknowledgments from strangers on the street or in stores. I've seen some positive changes in people in the past sixty days.

Personally, as far as day-to-day living goes it's been pretty much business as usual. I don't worry about opening my mail. I don't worry about flying other than having to change my habit of arriving at the last possible minute (and thus having to get up earlier). My partner in one business flies far more than I do and has said overall it's not been too bad for him, either.

I don't know that I'm "complacent" about what happened. I am, however, realistic. I feel there's very little I can do in my little corner of Indiana about what's going on in a cave half a world away. I can support my president. I can get up in the morning and go to work and make a living and pay taxes to support our nation's efforts against terrorism. So, as I said, for me for the most part it's kind of "business as usual" or as near to usual as I can have it.

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), November 11, 2001.


I don't think I potrayed what I meant to say!! I am not an intolerant person at all. Probably exactly the opposite...I was mostly thinking of people who get upset when their soap operas aren't on because they break in with special news coverage, people who want things to get back to "normal", people who don't even seem to care or realize what happened. I guess I ama little "dismayed" that they don't care a little more. Then I realize that every person deals with grief and tragedies differently. These are thoughts inside my head, they certainly don't translate to my actions, as I am truly a kind and understanding person. That is what, I guess, I was trying to say.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), November 12, 2001.


I'm not sure that I have changed anything, I just try to be a little more aware of my surroundings without being suspicious. We've had several arrests in this area relating to 9/11. My children, who were with a friend, witnessed a "bust" just last week. About 30 police cars were sent to a local motel. The owner and workers are suspected of having ties to Al Queada. I wish I had been with my kids, but my friend did a good job of making sure they weren't scared.

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), November 12, 2001.

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