Posted by BeardedLady on October 25, 2002, at 5:32:09
In reply to Terrorism on all Accounts, posted by Alara on October 24, 2002, at 20:32:23
Yes, I have to say that tiptoeing out to the mailbox wearing oven mitts was not the nicest way to live for the months following the WTC and Pentagon attacks and then the anthrax letters.
It took many months for us to get back to "normal," but I'd have to say that once the media coverage died down, we were left with a wounded psyche and a little more humanity. That's the people, though, not the government.
I confess to being ignorant about the Bali bomb, as I don't know what has happened in my own city in the past three weeks. (One of our stations has had news on every waking hour, and it's only sniper coverage.) I remember hearing about it as a blurb on NPR and nothing more.
I hope that in other areas of the US this serious event is getting the kind of coverage we might have gotten over there during our period of terror. But, alas, that is not our way.
I am sorry for your grief, your loss of security. I heard a therapist on television describing how you get over the pain of grief: At the end of the first year, your pain is about half of what it was. At the end of the second year, it's half of that half. At the end of the third year, it's half again. So you never really get rid of it, but it becomes easier to bear.
Good luck to you this year.
beardy
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