“There are plenty of places in the world where a kid dying is pretty common. But we can’t deal with it because a dead child is the greatest failure of a culture that believes it’s reversed the order of nature.” — Six Feet Under (2001)

Dear adults, do you remember the terror you felt that fateful day of September 11? When you watched the Twin Towers collapse, and worried that maybe your building would be next? What impact did that single day have on your life?

I was not born on that day, so I only have the experience of what people tell me. But if I can understand your fear of having a plane crash into your workplace, maybe you can understand my daily fear of being shot in my biology class.

You dismiss my feelings and ignore the daily terror I experience. Yet we went to war to make you

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