Because of 9/11

Hmm, poking around this site, I found this.  I was to have been on a train that went below the towers the next day, my friend was shopping in the mall beneath the towers the day before.  If but for a day either way, my life would have been affected personally.  And being the person I was then, I would have listened to what I was told, stood underneath those buildings, and been engulfed in the debris, as this woman was.  That compliant person doesn't exist anymore, glad it wasn't tested that day.

Like the shot heard around the world, the falling of those towers, it changed all of us.  It's become the reason for just about anything, "privacy concerns because of 9/11," a failed TSA because of 9/11, horrible travel experiences because of 9/11.  My father's conspiracy theories about 9/11.  On and on (needed a mood lift there for a moment). 

Some days I miss our innocence, such as it was, before that terrible day.