Quote Originally Posted by Lise

Many of my patients lost their jobs, sometimes every adult in the family lost their jobs. Most of our patients worked in service industries, many were undocumented immigrants. Terrorism hit the poor the worst. I used to think about that a lot, that the terrorists hurt most the working poor.

Wow - that's another aspect of that which I had not thought of. Sad.

We had a long talk in the car yesterday with the PP about 9/11 and how it has been the worst thing to ever happen to our country - and not just because of the lives lost on that day. If it had ended with that day, it would still be the worst thing to have happened. But to have had it used to do so many wrong things over the years that follow is something that just makes me sick. I am sad that other countries hate us so much. There was such a wave of support, encouragement and solidarity from other nations after 9/11 and it has been flushed down the toilet by the acts of our administration.

On 9/11 we took Emily to school as usual. Teachers and parents were in shock, but everyone wanted to proceed on with some normalcy - and get your kids away from the TV. Then DH and I did a ride, Alpine Dam loop (Fish we drove a lot of that ride). Marin's in the flight path for jets coming into SFO. It was eerie to have the skies utterly silent.