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We have made mistakes in our history that is for sure. One of the reasons I am… dissatisfied with events post 9/11 is because in my naïveté was that I was positive we had learned from those mistakes.
I homeschooled my twins in junior high; the sentence in their history textbook (the very same text they would have used in public school) stated the reasons to learn history. The two the stuck out was to learn what has happened in the past and to learn from those mistakes. The very things you mentioned were in that text along with specific names and what happened as a result.
We live in the information age. Very little can happen in this day and age without everyone knowing about it immediately. There are aspects about this that bother me but to me. However I thought that if the government were to take my neighbor in a manner unfairly people like me would immediately stand up and say “you cannot do this.” I have learned that this is not true. It is in fact worse now in my opinion. All the government has to do now is utter “terrorist” and there is nothing that can be done.
The world has not changed. It is the same today as it always has been, but my perspective has changed. I don’t know if Bin Laden was actually insightful enough to know that the actions that have happened post 9/11 would make people like me (who were previously quite happy and content with our country as a whole even though I may not agree with the Politians running the country) question our collective sanity and intelligence.
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I've been married for 24 years and have four wonderful children.
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