Welcome to normal
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PhotographerNathan Millis, United States
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These images are part of a project created to talk about a period of American history that has a strong chance of becoming misrepresented.
For some people what happened on 9/11 could not have been more life-changing, but for the majority of Americans, once the shock wore off, life resumed as before. William J. Dobson makes the case for this in the September ?06 issue of FP, citing headlines about topics such as stem cell research, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Iranian nuclear weapons that filled newspapers the morning of the attacks, and continue to fill them today. The similarities ?suggest that our pre-9/11 preoccupations are certainly not that different from those we carry today.?
What has changed since 9/11 is the mood in the country, While America maintains an image of power and patriotism, a sense of vulnerability has crept in at a level higher then anytime since the Cold War.
I was born in 1980, and grew up in a Chicago suburb. A good part of my childhood summers were spent on my grandparent?s farm in Iowa and at my other grandparent?s house in Michigan. I got a D in Spanish in High School, which helps explain why I cannot teach myself French. I hate the Cubs and love the White Sox. I went to college in Rochester, New York graduating in 2002. Since then I have spent a year back in my home town, a year in NYC, a year in Chicago, about five months in Europe, a month in Turkey, about two months in different motels, and inconvenienced most of my friends across the United States by sleeping on there couches. I am currently finishing up the project I have been working on for the last six years titled "Welcome to normal".
