Eerily enough, the date on the calendar was 9/11. 911 is the 999 emergency call in America.
Words cannot describe the horror that has been visited on America. Somehow, with the destruction of the World Trade Center and the devastation of the Pentagon, Americans seem different. They are in shock. They are in mourning. They are angry. They are almost in a national state of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Human tragedy
It's hard for an Englishman to perceive the damage done to the national psyche by these blows to such symbolic representations of American power. And then there is the human tragedy, as yet unquantified, and beyond imagination.
