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Have We Changed Since the 9-11 Attacks?
Matthew Geiger
Forum Columnist
With Sept 11 already come
and gone, the most popular
question recently has been
whether or not we have changed
since the attacks. So have we
changed, and if so, how? The
answer, to me, is clear and
simple. Of course we have
changed! This
is just a ridiculous question. I
do not care who you are or what
you believe, when anybody goes
through what every person in
America went through last year,
it changes you.
One of my first memories
since last year was reading the
first Guilfordian after the attacks
and reading the front-page article.
I do not remember exactly what
was said, but it was something
along the lines of how U.S. foreign
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policy might have caused the at
tack to happen.
On the complete opposite
end of the spectrum you have
people who reacted differently. I
remember a NYC police officer
getting up on stage at the Con
cert for America and telling
Osama Bin Laden that "he could
kiss his Irish ass."
In the hearts and minds
of these people, the sad
ness, the crying, and all the
pain they have felt has been
replaced by anger, rage,
and revenge.
They are open with their
feelings about what happened.
"How could you even try to ratio
nalize what happened? You go
to Ground Zero and see what
used to be the towers; you have
men and women without spouses,
and you have children with no
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Then there is the rest of
America, feeling a little bit
of everything.
I would say that most
people in this country were
all feeling a combination of
all the aforementioned
emotions. Anger mixed
with sadness, confusion
mixed with shock, and an
overriding feeling of "Why?
Why did this happen?"
On Sept 10, 2001 we all felt
these emotions. The feeling of
frustration at our government,
the emotions of anger, sadness,
and confusion all were felt be
fore and will continue to be felt
for as long as there are people.
Tears have always run down the
cheeks of a child that has just
lost a parent.
The way Sept 11 th has
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changed us is that now while we
all feel the same emotions we felt
before, we feel them now for a
different reason.
This column is not
meant to justify and throw
away the way people feel
about what happened last
September. I am also not
saying that we also need to
put American flags on our cars
and unite behind our president.
But to ask the question whether
Americans were changed by the
attacks is just ludicrous.
Today, a year later the world
is different, our government is
different, and so are the priori
ties of a nation that still has
these horrible attacks in its
preverbal rear-view mirror. But
we as Americans, we as Guilford
students, and more importantly,
we as human beings, are
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changed. We still criticize our
government, we still get angry,
we still get sad, and we all get
confused. But now, we feel these
things because we have
changed. To argue otherwise is
illogical, unfathomable, and for
lack of one last good adjective,
just plain dumb.
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