Reactions

“I understand what the World War II’s generation felt after the attack on Pearl Harbor. I know what extreme anger and sadness feel like.

My parents used to tell me what they were doing and where they were when John F. Kennedy was killed. I know exactly where I was when the second plane hit.

I thought that my generation could mature to old age without having a traumatic scar on our past.”

Dan Worcester

Baileyville

“I have become fatalistic. That is, I can’t be intimidated. The worst has happened.

I traveled abroad a month after the attack. There was no fear, just tremendous anger. On the airplane there was an overwhelming feeling of unity with the other passengers that nobody better make the wrong move. That resolve is still with me. However, I think Bush should stop threatening to attack Iraq. We should be listening and watching for hostile action against us. Didn’t he learn anything?.”

Gillian Kenyon

Bucksport

“I think 9/11 has affected the lives of everyone in our country. Everytime people board planes or go into big cities the thought of another attack is always in the backs of their minds.

The only thing we can do is live our lives the way we did before the attacks and pray that this never happens again. I plan on visiting ground zero this weekend and I am not going to let fear stop me, neither should anyone else.”

Ginger Newcomb

Bangor

“This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don’t think that I overstate that.”

Chuck Hagel

U.S. Senate R-Neb.

“An attack on one is an attack on all.”

Lord Robertson

NATO secretary-general

“We will rid the world of evildoers.”

President Bush

Sept. 17