Common fears journal

Terrorism
War
Death
All of the above situations create fear in people, but I am affected differently because I have been in the military. I never really concerned myself with terrorism before the September attacks, but since then I guess I really don’t stop thinking about it. Everywhere I turn that is all anyone is ever talking about anymore on the news, radio, people in general, newspapers. Being in the military with the job that I did I knew that terrorism could happen anywhere at anytime. I never really thought that it would ever happen in the magnitude that it did on american soil in the way that it did. Dealing with foreign nationals overseas that didn’t like me very much just for the fact that I was an american made me really upset. But to crash four planes killing thousands of people in my homeland just pisses me off. How dare they. How dare anyone invade my country and try to kill me and my family? What scares me the most about the whole terrorism thi...