Reply #25: Not a New Yorker?

[aquart]

I'm just guessing you never stopped dead in your tracks until a plane passed overhead.

Being traumatized and frightened is not macho. And don't think any of us are over it, we ain't.

Nobody in this country has as much reason to buy the terra! terra! terra! spew as we do, but we never once voted for a Bush, and we put Democrats in the Senate. My congressman is a Democrat, too.

Why? Because we know what happens AFTER a terror attack. Life happens. If you're still alive, you keep living. The rest of the country doesn't seem to have a clue about that.

We have muggers in New York. And we occasionally have terrorists (although the last ones only touched the pavement in pieces). So bloody what?

Like Chicago after the fire and San Francisco after the earthquake we know who we are better than we ever did before.