As part of this first issue, lenire requested some citizen
comments on last years terror attack on the Twin Towers in New
York and the pentagon in Washington D.C.
Here are the questions we asked
and the responses we received. We have responses from
jdb_educator, Karyll and Vialle.
A. Where were you (state/country) When you found out about the
Twin Towers Event.
B. How Did you find out?
C. How has it affected your life and/or attitudes over the past
year?
jdb_educator (Managing Editor of CVN)
Here are my answers :)
A. I was in New Mexico on the computer.
B. I was Instant Messaged to turn on CNN by clarity, I think. I
saw the first plane replay, then I watched in horror as the
second plane came into the building.I later found out my nephew
was working with 11 miles of the incident. We didn't have
immediate word about his family.
C. It has increased my knowledge of terrorism, my empathy for
peoples around the world who suffer under oppression, and my
concern for those in governments who only seek to control others.
Here are Karyll's answers (CL of InnerRealms):
A. Where were you (state/country) When you found out about the
Twin Towers Event
I was in Alberta Canada, checking my email as the kids were
finishing up getting ready for school. It was 0755 here when my
first mail said OMG, watch the news, The WTC has been hit.
B. How Did you find out?
First by email and then by immediately turning on the TV to CNN
where we were all glued for hours.
C. How has it affected your life and/or attitudes over the past
year
After the initial horror and shock and phoning my internet
friends that I knew were close to that area, I had the
realization given to me that not only my friends near the area,
that were at risk but as the events progressed, they were also
sending their sons/daughters/brothers etc.. off to war . I saw
Canada unite with the US in our hearts and prayers, I saw US
flags joining the Canadian ones and in fact being raised above,
instead of and beside our own. I saw people join together in
fear, in pain and in love. I watched anthrax scares reach even in
our small town rural alberta and protocols change all over the
hospital and within the city forces. I cannot hear a plane go
over head now without looking, wondering and remembering,
especially if there is more than one . (an unusual occurrence
here) Although we seem geographically far removed I felt the
surge of pain that shot through the world and added many tears to
that endless stream.
Today? a new grasp of what can happen to destroy a sense of
security and the ripple effects even a year later. I am more
careful to express and inform people how I care for them and feel
for them, in case that chance is thwarted in the future. Anything
that can be done now, today when it involves letting someone know
they are loved is a priority.
Here are Vialle's responses: (She is a caretaker and former CL)
A. I was in Tampa, Florida, at work
B. A customer told me and within 10 seconds the whole office
seemed to know, everyone alerted by their customers.
C. It affected me in many ways. Initially, disbelief. Then a
period of fear because I half expected the nearby Airforce Base
to be nuked. Then some months of depression over how a handful of
human beings could do such a thing, and how slowly we seem to be
progressing as a race. Next, some satisfaction that the world,
especially the United States, has opened its eyes and is trying
to do something about acts like this. And finally, hope, that the
unification of countries allied against terrorism evolves through
its growing pains and becomes stronger, increasing in numbers.
