"If there's a plane on the way, or a bomb outside, I'm not going to go into it," Thomas Schwartz, 20, in Washington for a job interview, said as he walked by the White House, just blocks from the World Bank, where police cars with flashing lights stood like silent sentinels.
"But I'm not going to be changing my lifestyle or sweating bullets for terrorists. That's what they want."
Yes you are.
I understand what he is saying......I will be alert, I will not hide in my home. I will go about my life as if the world is the same prior to 9/11. I may be afraid, but I will not give them the satisfaction of letting that fear rule my life.