Looking Back: 9/11 Across America
An Acoustic Exhibition of American Voices in the Aftermath
of Attack
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I fell asleep on the couch with the TV on. I woke up because the dog
wanted to go out and looked at the television and there was a movie
on that I didn't want to watch. So I switched the channel--the movie
was on the next channel, and I switched again and it was on the next
channel, and I realized it was not a movie.
Billie Jo McAfee, South Lake Tahoe, California
Well, this country has always been called a melting pot. I don't think
it's a melting pot at all. I think it's a big pot of oil and vinegar
and water, and there's all these different layers. But the funny thing
is, you stir it up it blends pretty good. We're stirred up real well
right now. We're blending up pretty nice. I mean I have my own prejudices,
and I'm willing to overlook them right now.
Keith Brown, Oviedo, Florida
One of the things I've thought about is the fact that people in Ireland
and in parts of Africa and, of course, in the Middle East, that people
all around the world live the way the folks in New York lived that day,
every single day of their lives. And we've been made to really join
with the rest of the world in some ways in understanding what it means
to live with a certain lack of safety, with a certain understanding
of threat, you know, with the anthrax mailings going on. And there's
just sense of, "Could it happen to me?"
Greg Hamby, Norwich, Connecticut
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