Anthonares

More than three years after September 11th, 2001, I continue to be affected in one minor way. I cannot go more than 6 or 7 hours without checking CNN.com to see if something horrible is happening to our country. I often must check CNN before I check my email, before I go to the bathroom, before I take my shoes off. Unthinkingly I open that browser and click on my bookmark, not realizing I’ve done so until I see the assortment of headlines. Terrorism has personally harmed me almost imperceptibly–but then again maybe not. Maybe my security and naïve hope were the victims. Before 9/11, the world I heard about in the news was a world of the European Union and Asian Tigers. Even Russia was becoming democratic and emerging from crippling corruption. Afterwards, I looked out and saw the other side of that happy tale, I saw the rest of the world, and that’s what I’m so frightened about.
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