Editorial: Meet change with thought

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Everything has changed.

When hijacked planes attacked the United States, they not only
took down the World Trade Center building, they also shattered our
nation’s innocence ““ an innocence made up of a freedom,
a safety and a confidence most nations are still attempting to
reach.

They shattered an international order, where the United States
was seen as an untouchable giant.

The attack shook our generation as John F. Kennedy’s
murder shook our parents’, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor
our grandparents’.

And now, the American people are behind a president who has
promised a long and sustained war against an elusive enemy he
admits will be difficult to find. The threat of a war like the ones
in Europe, the Pacific, Korea and Vietnam now threaten a people
which has lived free from such destruction for a generation.

The future not only holds the possibility of war, but of
restricted civil liberties, economic crisis and the racist attacks
at home.

Although the future is uncertain, we are not powerless.

Our actions today will define ourselves personally and
collectively for the rest of our lives.

Do not stand by idly. Do not let this new world order create
you. Create it.

Think about where we stand right now.

Think about terrorism. Think about hate. Think about war.

Think about the New Yorkers who leapt more than 100 stories to
their death from the flaming world trade center.

But also think about the thousands of innocent Afghan refugees
fleeing to a shut off border because they feel the fire of an
angered United States.

Think about freedom. Think about expression.

Think about what America means to you and what you want it to be
in the future. Think about your life.

Talk about this crossroads of history. Talk with your friends.
Talk with those who disagree with you.

Talk with your parents or grandparents who maybe remember the
last time this country was so frightened.

Talk with your neighbors. Be responsible and non-violent.

How do you fit into this tragedy? How will you fit into the
world’s new order?

Create the future.