Terrorism

             Since the disastrous day of September 11, 2001, the United States as well as the rest of the world has been changed indefinitely by senseless acts of terrorism. These acts have gravely impacted the lives of so many people world wide and especially here at home in the USA. From that day there have been many things that I have noticed change about and many of them are quite tedious and inconveniencing.
             After September 11, 2001, I noticed a huge change in the security patterns that take place in the airports. Myself being from the Chicagoland Area I was pretty shaken up by those events that took place in New York and Washington D.C. I would not say that I was scared to fly I was just pretty much suspect of all people I had seen. It did not matter what they looked like because there is no set description of a terrorist. For that simple reason that there is no "terrorist look" I was very skeptical of my surroundings when I was in Chicago in the coming months. A week to the day after September 11th, my high-school Spanish class took a field trip into Chicago which so happened to be my birthday and I was pretty freaked out about it. I was worried that while we were walking around down town there would be an attack and the carnage would rage again. This was not the case, as nothing happened. I feel that I was more afraid for my mother who had been in Las Vegas for a month or two babysitting my God-Daughter. I spoke with my mother a week before September 11th and I told her to come home a couple days early, and she told me that she would be home in time for my birthday, this was not the case. The results were me freaking out about the safety of my mother. She returned 4 days late, happily safe and sound.
             The months after these vicious attacks the country underwent some massive security overhauls. These overhauls were most visible at the airports. Airports did random screenings on people who looked su
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