It was difficult for me to deal with the terrorist attacks on the nation of my birth. I still am not sure that
I am dealing well with it. Most of the time I simply do not want to discuss anything about it, and whenever someone else brings it up I get angry. The one thing that most helped me with understanding why it bothers me so much is a song. I first heard the song during one of my return drives from Las Vegas. The name of the song is "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?", written and sung by Alan Jackson. You can hear part of the song for yourself by clicking here. (This song won "Single Record of the Year" award at the Academy of Country Music Awards.)I woke that September morning to the radio news of the first airplane hitting the World Trade Center in New York, and shortly afterwards came the report of the second crash. I had class that day, and so I drove the 45 minutes to the college.
It infuriated me that the teacher spent about half an hour discussing it (with many wrong facts) and then called an end to class. My anger was mostly caused by my being unable to deal with the facts myself. As I said, I still don't know that I am dealing well with it all, but I am doing better than I was. As I said, the song has helped me a bit to realize that it has indeed affected me, even though it happened all the way across to the other side of the country. | 
