I thought Gibson's idea was a very good one: to ask youth, who really haven't known a life without terrorism, to share their thoughts about that day and the five years since. It was worthwhile to hear them.
I would like to have heard a longer interview with more youth.
I was babysitting a two-year-old shortly after 9/11 and when I had the TV on, which I rarely do, as soon as it changed to coverage of the Twin Towers, the little guy just tensed up something terrible, and I realized his parents had been freaking out in front of him. So I took him in my lap and spoke in a very soothing, yet strong, voice, about how everything was going to be okay and we didn't need to be afraid of the pictures on TV. He calmed down. (But then he went back to Mania Central after he left.)
I had Brandon on my lap the other day while I was on the computer...I went on a thread that had the WTC towers burning and Brandon wanted to know how that happened...I told him the bad guys did it....and the Army guys are gonna get those bad guys so they won't do it again......and Brandon said, no...Jon is gonna get them....and I said that's right!........