Mary McNamara: Do not accept this way of life
My children don't remember 9/11. My youngest hadn't yet been born; her siblings were 3 years old and 17 months old. They know what that date signifies, have seen the footage and visited the site, but they don't know what it means - not really. They cannot fathom the devastating cultural dislocation that occurred in those moments when the World Trade Center collapsed, the Pentagon burned and the seemingly impossible became real.
My children do not believe in the seemingly impossible. In a country where mass shootings have become routine, nothing seems impossible.
For them, the symbol of terror and terrorism is not Osama bin Laden, or even ISIS. For them, the symbol of terror and terrorism is a
