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"Yes. I believe that many many people became conservatives that day."

You don't know how true those words are.

Truthfully though, I started coming around during Clinton 2 after the first WTC bombing.

After that I did a lot of soul searching about my liberal views.

Then on 9/11, as I sat at my desk and the first plane roared over my building, I knew something life changing was happening.

Ten seconds later I was looking up at an inferno and I knew then and there that we were now at war and life would never be the same.

The courageous firefighters and policemen that I saw rushing into the WTC and who would not make it out alive changed me forever.

The horror of witnessing the people jumping from 100 floors up changed me forever.

9/11/01 is the day I renounced liberalism once and for all and I will never forget that.

Oh my! God bless you. That must have been so horrible for you. I can't imagine having to watch those people jumping to their deaths. I get vertigo standing on the porch, so it makes my stomach hurt to even think of anyone jumping from that height. It is a truism that tragedy changes one's point of view. It also makes us grow. Our comfort and prosperity in this country has made us soft. That is why so many are having problems with the WOT.

I'm a product of the Great Depression and WWII. We knew hard times and we are tough.