Conversing about 9/11

While watching Nova: Ground Zero Super Tower my 9 year old asked, "Why aren't we attacked more?" I explained as best I could my personal idea (Yes I started it with I think) - That we are still perceived as a "Sleeping Giant" that no one really wants to wake ala the words of certain Japanese official spoken after the Pearl Harbor attack.

We talked for an hour after that about what it meant and wondered why some people couldn't find a way to agree without war. We talked about how things happened. When I told him that the pilots were already dead by the time the passengers started to act in planes 2 and 3 (he asked about them, I didn't volunteer), another voice surprised me. K, the youngest, in his little 5 year old voice chimed in, " That's not good . . . That's really bad." I didn't even know he was listening.

Sometimes my children bring me to tears in my amazement . . . Goodnight.

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