9/11, five years later

My stomach still churns when I think about the al-Qaeda attacks on this country five years ago. It was two years before I stopped compulsively checking news sites to make sure nothing terrible had happened in the last five minutes, and some mornings I still wake up with an unreasoning sense of dread that another attack has taken place somewhere. Thank goodness, nothing on the scale of 9/11 has yet occurred.

I'd like to believe that similar attacks haven't taken place because our political leaders and Homeland Security are doing their jobs with the enthusiasm, courage, vigilance, and acumen required. If that's not the case, then God help us all.