I have gained more insights and more regulations due to 9-11. Those events have sparked me to have to reevaluate my perception of the separation of Muslims and terrorists. I have engaged in conversations about the Middle East and the wars the US intervene in. Of course there are the new laws I’ve had to live under as a post-9-11 child. My privacy is under surveillance due to the PATRIOT Act and my bag has been searched at multiple airports in the name of “national security”. Nevertheless, I evaluate the effects of the event not by what I have gained in knowledge and rules but what I have lost. The wholehearted sense of security, wonder of expression and being able to freely discuss the topic is gone. Hope has become fragmented. There are physical effects that I am now living under but I, and this country, are still healing from the emotional scars left behind by those planes. And the most worrisome bit of the damage is that I was sleeping when it happened. I do not remember the actual day, yet I feel the effects. We all feel the
I have gained more insights and more regulations due to 9-11. Those events have sparked me to have to reevaluate my perception of the separation of Muslims and terrorists. I have engaged in conversations about the Middle East and the wars the US intervene in. Of course there are the new laws I’ve had to live under as a post-9-11 child. My privacy is under surveillance due to the PATRIOT Act and my bag has been searched at multiple airports in the name of “national security”. Nevertheless, I evaluate the effects of the event not by what I have gained in knowledge and rules but what I have lost. The wholehearted sense of security, wonder of expression and being able to freely discuss the topic is gone. Hope has become fragmented. There are physical effects that I am now living under but I, and this country, are still healing from the emotional scars left behind by those planes. And the most worrisome bit of the damage is that I was sleeping when it happened. I do not remember the actual day, yet I feel the effects. We all feel the