Take a second and think about a perfectly normal day in Batesville, but then the next day our town was getting bombed. How would we react? A CNN article titled 'Life edges back to normal in Boston-with lives changed' quotes a a citizen from the Boston area that said, "We were just so paranoid." I think everyone in Batesville can agree that we would feel this exact same way. We would all be paranoid and scared. I really don't know what I would do. This article also says, "Others said the experience offered a rare front-row seat to a phenomenon unfamiliar to most American cities, tested their faith or simply reminded them of life's fragility." After a tradegy like this one happens, it does make you think twice about life and the people you love. You wouldn't expect anything like this to happen to your city, but it can happen anywhere.
How would everyone in our city respond to this type of terror? Some Boston citizens said that, "It makes you wonder how safe we all are" and "There's no real going back to normal after something like this." I think the best thing we could do would be to just look to each other for help and guidence. It would be really hard to make it through a crisis without the help of your fellow citizens and Americans. Going back to normal would seem almost impossible after this type of event, but if you worked through it with everyone, it would be a lot easier. This same article talks about Boston trying to get back to normal and says, "But at Fenway Park, in an attempt to regain a sense of normalcy, more than 35,000 Red Sox fans bellowed out the lyrics to their eighth-inning signature tune, "Sweet Caroline," led personally in a surprise appearance by Neil Diamond." That is awesome that not only are people living around close to Boston are helping, but also people all across America. When a crisis happens in our country, I think it's safe to say that people really put aside their differences and come together to help and make a difference.
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