This morning while we were still waking up in our bed, in the same room where we were when we woke up to the news that the sound we’d heard as thunder was actually a plane that had just flown into one of the World Trade Towers, we heard on NPR that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Wow. That name is threaded through the background of ten years of living in New York City and almost the entire life of my child.
It’s stunning that Osama Bin Laden has been killed on President Barack Obama’s watch. After all it was President George W. Bush who declared war and spoke so often, during his many years as president, of his efforts to get Osama Bin Laden.
So now I will go through my day, a little uneasy about riding the subway, a little concerned about the nearness of landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and Empire State Building to the offices and classrooms of loved ones–a little too accustomed to life under high terrorist alert.