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America's Never-Ending War to Keep Itself Safe

Jeff Seldin

   WASHINGTON - For the past 18 years, there is one question that has
   rarely strayed for long from the minds of a majority of people living
   in the United States: Are we safe?

   It is a question that was etched into the American psyche following the
   terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists flew two planes into
   New York's World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon, while a
   fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

   "I looked out the window and I could see a mountain of concrete and
   steel just falling past the window, almost like in slow motion, like a
   curtain going down at a theater," said Frank Razzano, who witnessed the
   collapse of the World Trade Center's South Tower from his New York
   hotel room.

   "I ran to the opposite side of the room and pressed myself against the
   wall and thought that those were the last few minutes that I was going
   to have on Earth," he told VOA in 2013.
   

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