Growing up always has its blissful insulations from horror, in the best of circumstances. Americans, particularly, have been an ocean away from most of the terrible occurrences in modern times. We read of irate terrorists bombing s

Never again can we go back to those days of simplicity and non-vigilance, anymore than we can transport our minds back to the moment in our childhood that the letters on this page were a soup of unrecognizable jibber jabber. We have been robbed of our innocence as a nation. While we did not buckle under the weight of this terrible news nor collapse as the Trade Centers did, we will forever live with the awful images of our countrymen as they vainly attempted to get away from the top floors. This horrid occurrence serves to teach us. Sadly wisdom is often hard won. We must attack dictators and strangle them in their infancy before they are able to attack us. We must keep our Armed Forces strong and our intelligence accurate.

Despite the terrible awful dark deed that savaged our nation, we are stronger than ever before. Watching the firefighters and policemen rush into the Trade Centers, I realized we do have compassion and mercy for strangers, even in modern America. If we had become jaded and complacent this event served to remind us of the importance of life, the need for family and community, and the necessity for patriotism. If ever we took our freedoms for granted, being persecuted for that free spirit reminded this

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