When 9/11 happened I watched the grownups in my world lose their mind. On the news, in schools.
In retrospect it was fear whipped into a jingoistic furvor.
Our humanities teacher was a singular voice of dissent at the time. He used history and fact to help ground us.
No idea who I'd be if I hadn't been allowed into those classes.
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