Balsam Hill WI Tweedsmuir Community History - Community #9. 2000-2008 Current Events, p. 6

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"People don‘t know what‘s coming next,“ she said. "There will be copycat incidents and other scales. The impact will be huge. Nobody knows what this will meanpractioally for-airports. I don’t know what this will do to United. and [do lmowthatwhenl 5 flylwilltrytouselbreignairlinesandl will m1 using my Canadian passport. “0urseoseofsecuritywillbegone.. Nobodythinltsthe U.S. willbeattaeked. ‘ "Nobody thinks this is over. How wfll } the us retaliate? What is the futme of . America and the free world?" I; She said her friends in other countries share a common sentiment. “They’re thinking, if it can happen in the us, it could happen anywhere. The United States was always such a tower of Ms. Beckâ€"Glasgow and her husband have a daughter, Alexandra, who will be 2 in October. Because her work emails so much time away from home, her daugh- ter spends a great deal of time with her grandparents, Reinhold and Hedwig Beck, who now live near Amprior. Ms. Beck-Glasgow disagrees with those who believe small children don’t grasp the reality of catastrophic events such as the attacks. A seasoned air travel- ler herself, Alexandra was watching TV when the coverage of the plane hitting the building came on. “When she hears ‘NewYork’, she thinks ‘Mommy and Daddy’,“ said Ms. Beck- Glasgow. “My mother got her away from the TV as soon as she realized what was going on. But later in the day she was playing with a toy airplane. She kept waving it in the air and dropping it and saying ‘plane down’ .” “My mother phoned and told us we should talk to her so she would know we’re okay? , . As much as she is haunted by the thoughts of the possibility of more vio- lence and destruction, Ms. Beck-Glas- gow is also concerned that, on the other handpeople may move ontoosoon with- out fiilly dealing with the situation. “The way America works, something may be big news today, and tomorrow we move on to something else,” she said. “We feel bad, but ifotu own community isn‘t directly impacted â€" maybe I'm wrong to assume this. ‘ “The biggestthingwecanalldoispray I wish the president would close every- thing down for a call to prayer. We have to unite on a higher level. We can’t start thinking ‘that Palestinian family down the street did this’.” 77-

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