9/11. 6 months later - Somehow, it didn't feel like 6 months.

[PollyannaFlower46]

As an American, has your life changed since 9/11?

September 11 affected me in a lot of ways, I lost 3 friends in the WTC, and a cousin whom I had never met. My friends still have not had funerals or memorial services, and perhaps that makes me miss them more. I work and go to school downtown, and my school is less than 3/4 of a mile away from where the WTC once stood. I've spent many days since coming back to school at the makeshift memorials reading things left by grieving families as well as tokens of sympathy left by people from all over the country. This past Thursday, I was on Church Street for the first time since and broke down in tears...it was literally the first time I had even had a good cry since 9/11.

I've always been a nervous person, but now there are days where I am literally afraid to go to work or school. There are National Gaurdsmen and US Marshalls all by the courthouses which I go to on a regular basis with M16s which both comfort and frighten me. I'm afraid to ride the subway half the time and feel like there is nothing I can personally do to help anyone.

As far as the war efforts go, I support whatever actions that the military may take in securing the safety of this country. My only issue is that they are fighting a war against people who don't fight like we fight and that's what makes it even scarier.