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Otter, how effective you are in showing us what we missed: What happened at Jonestown was always explained, why it happened never really has.

It seems most humans in group settings become lemmings under the influence of evil, more easily blinded to its deception. Why indeed...

I had the opportunity to visit the site around the same time as your visit. I passed. I felt it was sacred grounds and did not want to trespass.

This is frightening lostmutt.

I was dating someone at the time who worked for a news broadcasting company. He had to stay in the city for 2 nights 9/11 and 9/12. He saw so much that never made it on air that on 9/13 he asked to sleep over. He was understandably shaken and stressed. As we tried to fall asleep with the windows open, a plane loudly flew by. I never remember a plane passing over my house before. We both shot out of bed so fast and ran to the window. Did not sleep much that night for no other reason except we were terrified we wouldn't wake up.

To this day, I have heard of people in the area who are traumatized by the sounds of planes flying overhead. In fact, one of the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers flew over our area.

Maybe I'm naive or a fool, but I still feel safe and secure in my home and workplace. I rarely fly (the last time was in 1996), but other than the increased "security" procedures, I doubt that it would seem different to me. I don't look at people with a slightly darker complexion any differently than I ever did.

I still trust people until they give me reason not to, and that doesn't happen very often. I am no more fearful than I ever was, and my life has not changed at all because of September 11. I'm not discounting your experience which was obviously very different from mine, but I'm just letting you know that not everyone feels this way.