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icon for WTCTERRORTerror strikes New York Updated: 2002-08-16 17:00:00
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Author: Patrick Audley
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Today the world changed. We aren’t safe anymore. We aren’t at peace anymore. We need to fix that. This must not happen again. This will not.

update Patrick Audley
August 17th, 2002

Reflecting Back

Reading my initial comments and seeing these pictures again brings back some of my original emotions from this event. This time though, instead of outrage I feel more pity and sadness. Pity for ourselves for what our initial anger and fear have made of us. Sadness for the police-state that the once (moderately) free US has become. I constantly reflect on the luck that has seen both of us living outside "Fortress North America" since those events. As each new draconian law is passed in Canada or the US we shiver a little.

Xenophobia is a very dangerous thing. I see in the leaders of North America shadows of Hitler (although in George Bush’s case it’s so hard to see anything but an adolescent monkey). I hope that it will work itself out but I would not feel comfortable moving home now.

This event was a great spiritual lesson for me. Watching how everyone, including myself, reacted at the time showed me many flaws within myself. Though I will never approve of terrorism, I now think the only solution is to strive for a universally better world where noone will feel the need to do such things. We are all ultimately responsible for the world which we’ve created...
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Dated: 2001/09/19
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Dated: 2001/09/26
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Dated: 2001/09/15
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Original: http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101010914-174764,00.html
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Created On: 2001-09-24 08:53:09
Since the days that have followed the WTC terrorist attacks as well as the pentagon and the crash into the Philidelphea corn field, a common thought has been, "We have lost our innocence"! Perhaps it is better said that we had forgotten that the freedoms we have taken for granted for so very many years, had been earned and not given. We will mourn, we will pray, we will rebuild and for the sake of our children’s children, we will fight for our right to be free. We will be stronger!
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