Everyone involved should have a chance to grieve, and we should be shoulder-to-shoulder with them. My brother has (or had?) about 20 friends and acquaintances who worked in the WTC complex. He believes them all to be dead. He is shattered like I've never heard him before - more so even than when a family member died. He saw the 2nd plane hit.
Again, everyone should grieve, or help another grieve. But we can't forget who we, as a nation, are. This nation has literally lost hundreds of thousands of dead to maintain its freedom. Indeed, we lost about 1% of our population (equivalent to 2.8 million today) in order to secure our freedom. It would monumentally compound this tragedy to allow everything that these people fought and died for to vanish in a moment of panic or fear.
Today is for grieving, tomorrow for action. Never for permanent reductions in our liberties.
Dennisw - please see my #29. There are many things to be concerned about. Yes, the people who were killed and injured, and their families, are first. Give blood and pray for them. But we cannot let the Ba$tard$ who did this accomplish their goals, by passing rash and harsh laws in the heat of the moment.