[stanz]

In 1993, I sat in my office 5 blocks from the Trade Center and heard the explosion when the bomb went off. Every day after, I thought about when the terrorists would come back and finish the job. I thought about it exactly 3 times every day- - -in the morning when I walked through the WTC concourse after taking the E train, at lunch time when I ran my errands at the concourse and again at night on the way home. Since 9/11, I haven't been able to let go of the same feelings...that it's not over.... that some time in the near future, I may not be lucky enough to have the chance of thinking about it again. We aren't gallant here in NYC, we are just going about the business of life the only way we know how.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I think you're right. They will come back again, and go after NYC again. They probably believe that is the seat of *infidels*, or something so absurd like that.

[dansangel]

"We aren't gallant here in NYC, we are just going about the business of life the only way we know how."

That does make you and all New Yorkers who have stayed to face down the evil "gallant."

All of us in America have been victimized and many of us live with 9/11 in our hearts and on our minds day after day. Next time, if there is one, it could be any one of us. I worry about it here in Atlanta, home of the CDC.

Peggy Noonan captures a feeling a lot of us have had the past 6 months, but couldn't verbalize.

God bless us all.....God Bless America!