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Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.
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And who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
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To play on in the face of uncertainty seemed the only American thing to do.
How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?
It did seem amazing, in that moment, that there had ever existed a creature with the power to fly.
