Okay, heart. You can start beating again.

I was coming back from lunch with my mom, and my mom was checking her voicemail messages. One message was from Marsha Foulks, my PSAT tutor. She asked to reschedule our meeting this afternoon for a different time "in light of recent events" and because of "what's going on in our counrty". She said that she hesitated in prying herself away from her TV. I froze. Had there been another attack? Was it possible for there to be another attack, even with all the new security measures the United States has initiated? The bright, sunshiney day suddenly didn't seem so happy anymore. I imagined some distant day in the future, when someone would ask me what I was doing when I heard about the second attack. I was coming back from lunch at Taco Diner with my mom, and I had gotten the news from my mother's voicemail.

My mom called my aunt, who was with my dad at my grandfather's house, to try to find out what happened. She said that the U.S. had started bombing Afganistan. Idiot! I thought. What on earth is there to bomb in Afganistan? Evidently, the Bush administration decided that Afganistan could do with even more poverty and destruction that its people are already facing now. Despite all the effort that has gone into planning this air raid, something inside me feels like they haven't planned this out properly. I can only hope that Bush and Blair are able to go forward with their plans without harming innocent civilians.

Sorry this entry is so abrupt. I'm in a bit of a rush. So you can be better informed in case you hadn't heard, here are some news resources of interest: Bush's address to the nation, Attack on Afganistan, CNN.com