One should never apologize for rambling (or anything) in their own journal! :)
I guess in a morbid sort of way I am lucky. I never saw the US as a safe place. I've lived in neighborhoods where you could get killed by gang crossfire or knifed by an angry mugger on crack. Freaks within our own country like Tim McVeigh and the Unabomber and all the militias up here in the Eastern part of WA and Idaho where anti-governmnet extremists stockpile arsenals and are just waiting to snap.
But if I think back to how I felt when I was a little kid and I thought my home had a magical sense of safety to it - then when my dad got really violent that magical sense of safety was shattered and everything seemed like it came crashing down ... when I think that's what some people are going through because of this particular terrorist attack I can empathize a lot more. That is a huge and devastating lesson in reality that's hard to recover from. But in the end, it does make one stronger.
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Date: 2002-09-13 11:19 am (UTC)I guess in a morbid sort of way I am lucky. I never saw the US as a safe place. I've lived in neighborhoods where you could get killed by gang crossfire or knifed by an angry mugger on crack. Freaks within our own country like Tim McVeigh and the Unabomber and all the militias up here in the Eastern part of WA and Idaho where anti-governmnet extremists stockpile arsenals and are just waiting to snap.
But if I think back to how I felt when I was a little kid and I thought my home had a magical sense of safety to it - then when my dad got really violent that magical sense of safety was shattered and everything seemed like it came crashing down ... when I think that's what some people are going through because of this particular terrorist attack I can empathize a lot more. That is a huge and devastating lesson in reality that's hard to recover from. But in the end, it does make one stronger.