My school is, of course, open today despite most people either staying home or ditching classes to watch the news. I don't have a television right now so I knew nothing until almost noon.

Denver has been in a sort of mini-panic due to the proximity of the Federal Center here which is the largest installation of government offices outside of DC.

I'm already afraid: of kneejerk calling to war, of the same kind of ethnic persecution that I watched friends endure while the Gulf War was going on. I'm afraid that the grieving are going to want blood in the streets. I'm afraid for all of us.