I was 5 when it happened, sent home from school early, I shoplifted an entire box of Hershey bars from a 7/11 while the teenager at the cash register sat watching a portable television, mouth agape at the collapse of the American empire, the shadow of no towers.
But then the world moved on, even if it really didnt. Everything became a little different, a little worse. Little plastic flags on lawns and Minivan bumper stickers, Dixie chicks music removed…