ABSTRACT
The new millennium brought a paradigm shift in the United States that completely changed the condition and understanding of the world and most notably our personal safety and security. The United States, with the Cold War over, domestic terrorism at an all-time low, and a thriving economy, achieved a feeling of accomplishment and contentment. Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups had attacked U.S. people and property overseas: the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, soldiers in Somalia, and U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; however, because of the perception that that was “over there,” we felt safe at home in the continental United States. On September 11, 2001, that changed. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, signaled to the American people that they were not safe. The sense of safety and security that we had long maintained in the United States was gone.
