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Beating and 9/11. in both instances, the loss of innocence comes down to no longer feeling safe in your own country. the september 11 terror attacks in 2001 were a visceral, terrifying reminder of the fact that death can be visited upon us anywhere, on plane, at work and iconic building that felt permanent and yet it fell. nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day. i think every one who was old enough to experience it live on television remembers exactly where they were. i was in florida where we had moved four years earlier from new york. i was still a new yorker. that still felt like home. i had a day off from the nbc affiliate where i worked as a digital producer and woke up to hear my brother who was visiting from denver and my husband yelling, oh a plane just crashed into the world trade center. i ran downtown stair as the second plane hurdled into the south tower. ....