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Elisheva Schlam Crunching
through flaming yellow and red
leaves as we waited for the school bus last
month, my four year old son, Mo,
turned to me and
asked, “Where are the policemen
going to throw the mess
from the World Trade Center?”
His face lit up with a wicked
smile as he suggested, “What
about sending it back to Aff-ghanistan?”
Since September 11, Mo’s
life, like everybody else’s
life, has
been radically altered. The tenets
of eat your squash and you
can ride your bike, shove your
brother and you’ll have to do timeout, go
to bed when Mommy says and she’ll read you
a story just don’t apply anymore. His whole
world order was based on the natu- ralness
of cause and effect. But the belief
that societal rules govern the universe
blew up that day,
together with the Twin Towers. Cont.
on page 5 And
so, much like the fires still burning beneath
the rubble, the disaster’s aftereffects are
lingering on in his little mind and heart. He
cannot make sense of it and therefore, he cannot
move on. The concepts of sense,
systems and order have been
shattered. Like a mourner who
passes through the stages of grief,
my pre-schooler is moving through
phases in his reaction to the
events of September 11. But
the tragedy’s grip
on his psyche will
not loosen. On
day one he asked, “Mommy, what
did the people working in the
buildings do to Osama Bin Laden?
Did they make him mad? Why did he want
to kill them if they were behaving?” Looking
into his wide-open blue eyes,
I knew he was begging me to “say
it ain’t so.” Wild
men don’t just crash into buildings and SM
The Comprehensive
Network Newsletter
LOOKING BACK,
MOVING FORWARD
In our Summer
1993 issue we highlighted
Mind Over Body®’s work
providing on-site seminars for survi-
vors dealing with the serious effects
of post-traumatic stress as a result
of what was
then the worst terrorist bombing
in U.S. history. These semi- nars
were entitled Feeling Safe Again:
Coping with the World
Trade Center Crisis.
Cont. on page 6
From The Executive Director
PTSD: Aftermath of 9.11
Stress Relief
Through Guided Imagery
7.11 for 9.11
Feeling Safe Again
Workshops and Counseling
Curriculum in Cultural
Diversity EMDR
Workshops Opportunities
Bulletin Board IT’S
NOT CHILD’S
PLAY A
Four- Year-Old
in Terrorist
Terrain MO
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