ABSTRACT
The world as we knew it changed. In addition to such things as changes in airport security, what emerged from the aftermath was a new awareness that those of us living comfortably in North America are not immune from the kind of danger that has been part of life in other parts of the world. On that one horrific day, 2,829 people died at the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York, 189 others died at the Pentagon, and another 44 died on a field in Pennsylvania, when passengers attempted to retake control of the plane from the hijackers (Fingerhut, Hoyert, & Pickett, 2003). Since then, the events of 9/11 seem to have crystalized into a new recognition of our vulnerability. A chief goal of terrorism, of course, is to arouse fear and to intimidate.
