On Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, causing the 110-story twin towers to collapse. Another hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
Being attacked on our own soil is still the most shocking event of our collectives lives. Not since the attack on Pearl Harbor, when HI was not yet a state, has the enemy struck us so close.
Are we safer now? I have no assurance of that; the rhetoric spouted by politicians says ‘yes’………..is it true? How can we know?
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I am not sure that we are collectively safer but personally, considering where you live, I would guess that you are pretty safe.
I so agree with you Barb. I will never forget that day.
I remember it like it was yesterday, and as I stood in school with my students saying the Pledge of Allegiance that day, I had tears and goosebumps all at the same time. Such a scary world we live in now…