Thursday, August 4, 2011

Will the next generation be living in constant fear of terrorism as well?

I was 11 years old on 9/11/01, and I remember that day like it was yesterday, I was in school in Downtown Brooklyn right across from Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center, All I remember is sirens, sirens, sirens nonstop, and wall street people yelling in fear, walking across the brooklyn, williamsburg and manhattan bridges to brooklyn from the destroyed world trade center site. we were dismissed right away, my mother picked me up asap, i heard the fear in her voice, even back in my usually rowdy neighborhood in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn you didn't hear a peep on the streets, just people sitting around on the stoops, watching the news, and the FDNY firehouse that was based in my neighborhood in Brooklyn lost 4 firemen on 9/11.... so essentialy, since age 11, I have been living in fear of terrorism, things that in the past that were never associated with terrorism are now immeditaly branded "Possible terror related attacks" or something, for good reason though. But my question is, one day will I look back on this and tell the new generation, "your lucky you didn't grow up in my generation, every night there was fear of a new terrorist attack"? Or it will be the same..

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