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Monday, October 15, 2001

Underlying all the chatter is a strong desire to believe it was an ‘inside job’

"Everyone's buying flags? Journalists who criticize Bush have been fired? The 'Star Spangled Banner' is the top song? Arab-looking people are being turned away from airport boarding gates? I feel like going home immediately so I'm not caught outside the walls of Fortress America. I feel like staying put so I don't have to get on a plane."

ABC. Americans living and working abroad describe their experiences handling the drastic changes in American mood, mentality and image. "This morning I arrived at the offices of the newspaper where I work in Prague to find a workman blocking my way. He was hunched over a welding tool that was throwing off a shower of sparks. My first thought was: My God, that man isn't wearing safety glasses. My second thought was: My God, where did that giant steel door come from?"'

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