Comments on: Epilogue: Some Guy’s American Summer

By: Will Donovan

Will Donovan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:48:20 +0000

Julian thanks for your thouhts. I know that this post covered a lot of ground..

I honestly (and I hope people understand this) can’t imagine the type of person I’d be if 9/11 hadn’t happened, if certain friends were still alive, if my family was still intact, if tragedy in general didn’t strike. I wouldn’t be me, that’s for sure.

I don’t know what that means, but I know it’s true …

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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:45:13 +0000

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By: Arab World: Healing the Rifts of 9/11 :: Elites TV

Arab World: Healing the Rifts of 9/11 :: Elites TV — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:33:12 +0000

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Global Voices Online » Arab World: Healing the Rifts of 9/11 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:07:58 +0000

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By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:44:23 +0000

I understand this feeling so well – coming back to the US (I’m from NH, on the Maine border, so the feeling is similar, I’m sure) for a month after being in Morocco for over a year was tremendous – nostalgic, complicated, difficult, happy – and going back was even better.

More importantly though, the first part of this post…9/11 was in fact a tragedy that in its wake caused first more animosity, then perhaps – if from a smaller subset of Americans – more understanding and awareness. I don’t know that I would have ever learned Arabic or changed my course of study were it not for that event – and not out of some sense of patriotism, but out of a sense of frustration at the racism that surrounded me late that September.