After 911 NYC was changed ME I live here..how did it effect you NYC? I lost my job..etc..?

Answer 1

Not nearly as dramatically as you..but I worked for a major international airline and I remember thinking that day that my job would never be the same again..and it never was. I had never thought of someone using an airplane as a weapon.

Answer 2

At the time, I was driving an 18-wheeler with my husband (team-drivers). We were dropping off an empty trailer in Las Vegas, and another driver (different company) told us that someone had bombed the Trade Towers in NYC... I thought, "Gotta be somebody's idea of a sick practical joke..." After I heard the news reports, though, "Who in their right mind would be so deluded as to think that attacking the most powerful nation in the world would make us cower?" Were they trying to get their people killed??!?

We were asked to return to company HQ in St George UT. On the way, we listened to the radio, checked our QualCom (text messages from Dispatch). There was some serious price gouging that day-- Diesel at $8/gal, etc....

When we got back to St George, we were fired. We'd been driving for a whopping 3 months! We later found out that they "fired" (laid off) about 1/3 of their drivers. The man that had trained us had almost gotten the ax, and he'd been with the company for 10 years!

I live in ID, so there's not a LOT of difference here (mostly attitudes)- People are more patriotic, or at least politically involved. I know I'm more aware of the military and what the military has done for us. I'm more grateful for my freedoms.

I agree with Toby Keith ("We'll put a boot in your a**- it's the American way...")
Fighting back IS the American way... When we get kicked, we kick back!! We've NEVER rolled over for tyrants and terrorists.

Answer 3

I'm from clear over on the west coast, and the ripples from the storm were felt here too.

The tension at work was unbearable, there was fear, hate and anger everywhere. My coworkers we're ready to hang anyone. When it was "determined", that the culprits were of Arab descent, things got even uglier. People who resembled an Arab, were looked at with a cold deadly face. Then it went further, anyone with a natural tan were looked at with suspicion.

Five years later, many people want to see the boarder between Mexico and California Closed. They want to see all undocumented aliens out of the state. They don't even stop to wonder who will pick the states agricultural crop.

Myself, I would like to be able to move from country to country freely and feeling welcome.

That attack may have changed our world for years to come. I just hope the next one, if there is one, will bond us back and not drive us farther apart.

Would you take a look at about 8 - 10 minutes of this interview with Professor Steven Jones . It's a 45 minute video and well worth looking at, to its end. At the very least, pass it on to those you care about.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2842384983834100001