On September 11th, 2001, the face of America changed. Since then, Americans have lived with a new, perceived reality. Never before had the United States' citizens recognized the reality that we could be attacked on our own soil from those existing outside our soil.
To this day, much of American life is concerned with, and controlled by this new reality. To a very large extent, we have accepted a perceived reality which is not, in fact real. Vast sums of money, expertise, and experience have been expended on this perceived reality to “make us safe”.
We were told that it was terrorists who did this for (to) us. Terrorism had struck our shores. We have been stricken by it ever since. What an entire national history, and more wars than most of us would care to count could not do; what political battles had never accomplished, 22 people-21 foreigners and one President of the United States did within 24 hours.
Now, please don't go running off, yet. Follow me just below the squggledoodlethingey fold, and I'll explain.
