... but also for
(a) all of the children that lost their innocence today. i talked to my mom for a while earlier (she is a techer near young children) and she said the effect was just devastating, her school was trying to shelter the kids from the news, but that didn't work very well, and the images will be so traumatizing for them too. (geez, look what they've done to us as adults)

(b) innocent people in the middle east. today hit home for me an idea of the kind of fear these ppl live in as a result of senseless terrorism. i mean, some of those ppl have known nothing but this random terrifying violence their whole lives. gives me new insight, personally.

9/11/2001 10:31:12 PM

I think this is like the Challenger accident for these children, only on a much larger scale. I was 6 years old and wanted to be an astronaut until I saw that gleaming white shuttle and those astronauts just vanish in one huge fireball...after that, it just didn't seem interesting anymore. It was as if all my dreams were just smashed in one big bang. I guess this is what those kids are seeing right now.

9/11/2001 10:33:58 PM

i heard on the radio that some sick motherfucker called in a bomb threat to a school in the midwest as these kids were watching news footage, and they had to evacuate, etc... can you imagine????

9/11/2001 10:34:51 PM

yeah my mom said that there was a bomb threat at an elementary school in raleigh today

9/11/2001 10:35:37 PM

probably some stupid kid.

9/11/2001 10:36:10 PM

yeah, Maverick, I felt the same way. I still remember how sick I felt when I saw a picture of the Challenger.

9/11/2001 10:36:15 PM

The bomb threat in Raleigh was at Emma Conn, my alma mater.

9/11/2001 10:38:51 PM

i hope all this bomb threat stuff doesnt start up again.....its like after the Columbine shooting....there were all these designated days for their "shooting"

9/11/2001 10:40:50 PM