nmah461.xml

nmah461.xml

Yes. I have become much more proud of the flag.

The change has been almost subliminal. I worry more about what decisions our leaders make and wonder if we will be attacked again at times.

The attacks had a surreal quality to them until I went out to the parking lot of Northern Virginia Community College. The college is about ten miles from the Pentagon, and even from that distance, I could see the clouds of smoke rising from the fires at the Pentagon above the trees. What I had seen on television reports became real to me, and at the same time I became scared and horrified at what had happened.

Also, I live under the flight path to Washington National Airport. Right after the attacks I was awed by just how quiet things were, except for the occasional military jet flying over head. The change was so dramatic and at the same time so unnerving.

born-digital

story

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2002-08-27