The healing process

摘要

How America has changed since we put together our last issue! Just a few weeks ago, we had no notion that the US would be readying itself for a possible war. For those of us fortunate enough not to have lost loved ones when terrorists struck the US on Sept. 11, and for those without military ties, routines can remain relatively unchanged. For me, like many others, the main impact of the event was to complicate travel. I was supposed to fly back from Advanstar's Santa Ana, Calif., offices to my home in Chicago on the afternoon of the 12th, but didn't make it home until almost midnight on the 14th. And that was only after changing airports and not giving up when airline personnel told me there was a lot of FBI activity at LAX and my flight was likely to be cancelled. LAX that day was like something out of a Herman Wouk novel as dogs sniffed cars, police rode by inside the terminal on bikes, and each employee at the American Airlines check-in counter had a US flag at his or her post.