Today is the 9th anniversary of these devious and caitiff attacks to the heart of the free world. A day to be still with all the victims (families), a day which changed the world forever.
I have a question to our american friends. What i would like to know is on one side, how much this incident changed your own life and on the other hand whether the wounds, which these attacks caused, can ever heal...

I am not an American but I lost a few fire fighter friends on that day of infamy and my wounds have never healed nor has there families, Personally I don't think the pain will ever leave and every time I went past Ground Zero after the attacks the horror overwhelmed me, it was a needless cowardly attack and it made my friends who still live in New York very aware of who they trust now

To be honest, it has changed my life. Independet whether i would have a real reason but since the attacks i feel inside me a deep mistrust for muslims. Maybe unfounded bc i live in a multi-cultural city and i really feel safe here but the mistrust is still in me.

No your feelings off mistrust are justified I look twice at anyone that looks foriegn especially after our own 7/7 and they have a back pack, I know it is wrong to racially profile but when they can freely walk our streets in burkha's and you cant tell if they are male or female then you have every cause for concern I mean you have to remove your crash helmet before you enter a bank but they can board a plane dressed in full burkha and who knows what they could be concealing,

Thinking of all 9/11 victims and families today god bless them.When 7/7 happened over here we had Scotland Yard came to the place where i worked in Leeds to look on our CCTV to see which route the bombers took was really scary,also traveling on bus if anyone got on with back pack and dark appearance panic would set it,like Geri says its wrong to racially profile but was cause for concern as you never know its the world we live in now...

I can't say that 911 has changed my life in any way. And I can't say that I distrust muslims. I do think that most of them are god fearing people who obey the true tenents of their religion. However I would like to have a frank discussion, with a knowlegable muslim and try to find out just where these fanatics are coming from. But the fanatics and haters don't come just from the muslim religion. Right now, we have some goof-ball, in Gainesville, FL, who is threatening to burn several hundred copies of the koran. It just makes me wonder what makes him think that his god is better than their god? Could it possibly be that there is only one god and we just have different viewpoints?

One good rememberance that I have, of that day, were fire engines loaded with firemen going in and out of the "Ground Zero" area, and of the crowds along the streets, who cheered for them. Our country would be a better place if everyone would remember and live by that spirit by working together, to solve our problems, rather than the petty bickering that permeates our political scene today.

As an American we still feel the after effects of that day. and myself I wonder every day are they going to attack again. and if so where and do I live anywhere close to it? I won't even fly anywhere if I can't get there by train or bus then I won't go. thats bad!

Xray, i understand your thoughts and rationally viewed may my own mistrust be unfounded. I don´t hate muslims and you are right, they might be god fearing but on the other hand do i have in mind that the attacks on 9/11 or in London were made by ? Surely, those guys were extremists and haters of the west, they might not be exemplarily, but i know for sure that i never would travel into a muslim country. My girl-friend accepts it although she has iraqi roots.

You described the spirit directly after the attacks. This is what i´ve seen first and i envied your countries citizen for this. It was great to see.

I could say that it had a profound and lasting impact on me. I felt very safe before 9/11 and felt very safe in the fact that terrorist attacks could never happen here. When I saw what was happening I felt safe no more. Perhaps because I lived in NYC during 9/11 and was so far away from my family, I felt alone and afraid. Oddly enough, as soon as air traffic got back under way, I immediately flew back to where my family was to be with them for a couple of weeks, which provided comfort and helped me get back on track. I know of several people who perrished that day, and my thoughts and prayers go out to their families on each anniversary of 9/11.

He may be a goofy ball in Florida, the burning is idiocy of a book burner against the idiocy of people so insecure in their faith are threatened by a petty act.
The great "religion of peace" of the fringe elements will go beyond protest lead to more terrorism, and will lash out.
It is healthy to me to have skepticism of muslins as a whole yet we also know there are fringe elements in every race, country and each religion.

No I do not believe the wounds will heal, it will always have lasting effects in many ways not just the horror the evil but the good that shows it face too.