[WVNan]

Lately I've been sitting here in the hinterland of WV thanking the Lord that terrorists have no interest in hillbillies. But then I picked up the local paper to find that the local Barney Fifes and health dept people are so busy chasing Anthrax scares they are stretched to their limits. I don't think there is actually any Anthrax around here, but people are very nervous. The only thing I can think of that might need watching around here are the two bridges that connect us to the outside world. I think the locals have those covered pretty well though. So I suppose there will be no need for me to wear my video watch when I go out.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Lately I've been sitting here in the hinterland of WV thanking the Lord that terrorists have no interest in hillbillies.

I recently read an article in Time magazine about someone in Copperhill, TN who met a man at the local airport last spring who he swears was Atta. The man flew in on a small plane and was asking strange questions about the local chemical plant and the various dams.

I was floored because I whitewater raft near Copperhill every year and it is a very small town. It is a place we go to to get away from it all. Evidently the terrorists considered taking out the plant or one of the TVA dams.

Not to be an alarmist, but even small town America could be a target.

[Alamo-Girl]

I'm in a small rural community in the Midwest where many people know each other, so spotting outsiders is not difficult. However, we do have a problem with a very few people being concerned about their mail being tainted with anthrax.

[KentuckyWoman]

WV is VERY close to where some of those suspected with aiding and abetting the 9/11 terrorists lived. There were several (I've seen everything from 14 to 25 in the newspapers) who were LIVING in Middlesboro, KY at an apartment complex near the hospital! They were apprehended, finally, somewhere in the northern part of KY (made the Louisville and Middlesboro papers).