What Comes First After 9/11: The Nest or the Nest Egg? – Yahoo! News
What Comes First After 9/11: The Nest or the Nest Egg? – Yahoo! News.
The week after the twin towers, the pentagon and a remote place in Pennsylvania was struck by terrorism, life in America became very quiet. For a record three days, planes were kept out of the sky and only military and a few select private planes were permitted to fly. One of those planes took Osama Bin Laden's family out of the US. The news showed constant footage of the tradegy and American's were warned that terrorism works when people stay home and become fearful.
My husband and I went to a rock and roll concert that Friday night and were subjected to detailed search and seizure before we were permitted inside. Lighters, key chains, and other terroristic-like paraphernalia like water bottles were confiscated. Government agencies had warned that civic events and public locations might be targeted. We thought the concert might be cancelled but we needed a break from the news. We were on brain drain and fortunately, the band rocked the house in an otherwise uneventful evening.
A few months later, there was an anthrax scare,. Then a shoe bomber and on Christmas Eve we had an underwear bomb scare but for the most part, American's have largely been secure and insulated from this war on terrorism.
One time right after the event I was traveling and the emergency codes went from yellow to orange. No one could really verbalize what this meant, but I know it added about three hours of time to my processing in and out of O'Hare International Airport and I almost missed my flight.
What have been the high and low points in your life since 9/11? Are you like me, wishing that we would end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Wondering where those evil doer's might be? Wondering where those Weapons of Mass Destruction are? Do you wonder what unemployment numbers might look like if we included those in the military, those that were semi-retired and only working part time, those that are taking less hours now, those that owned small businesses that are now belly up? My guess is it is closer to 50% unemployment. But what do I know. I'm just a hen focused on her nest. If I was worried about my nest egg, I would be really depressed.
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