A friend sent me an image and said, “idk if you’d want to speak about this, but my gosh, this is terrible to see.”
At first, when I saw the image, I thought it was some funny meme or parody of a Transformers movie set in India. Then, when I looked closely, I saw that the source of the image was DHS (Homeland Security). At the time of this writing, it is September 11th. I remember exactly where I was when I saw the second plane crash into the tower. I was sitting in my science class with the black-topped tables and four wooden legs, a sophomore in high school, watching horror unfold in real life on the TV that was hanging in the corner of the room. I cannot begin to describe the kind of evil that was exposed to us in America at that moment. A kind of evil that had been active in other parts of the world that we had been insulated from, but that now bec…
