The Day After

There has been a lot of discussion in the media over the past week about 9/11, and what happened and how people reacted to the event.  I was thinking today about the day after 9/11.  What changed for me on that next day was the beginning of an obsession about watching the news of the day to get some idea of what was coming next.  Eighteen years later I find myself still in the grip of that hypervigilant awareness.  I check the news many times a day to find out what kind of threat is imminent or in progress.  All too often I find something concerning, sometimes something horrendous like the murder of school children.  In most cases, however, the perpetrators are not some foreign enemy, but American citizens.