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Maybe it's a sign that Washington, like the rest of the country, is beginning to get back to normal. While the two parties acted more like one in the first weeks after the terrorist bombing--speedily authorizing Bush to use force, passing $40 billion in emergency disaster relief, approving a $15 billion bailout for airlines--last week they were back to their old bickering. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle branded the Republicans "obstructionist" for their opposition to airport-security legislation. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy blamed each other for holding up antiterrorism legislation...
...Vieira's teams do their best to look and talk like normal soldiers, not shrinks. They introduce themselves not as therapists but as part of the "critical-incident stress-debriefing team." Even the Pentagon's new mental-health wing, located inside the main health clinic, has a generic name: the Life Skills Center. Vieira's handouts emphasize that getting emotional "is not weakness." Says Army Major Rick Keller, a psychiatric nurse-practitioner from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington: "We know we can't get them with...
...coming weeks may be the toughest yet. Until now many units have been able to focus on pulling their offices together and getting people back to work. But as their tasks return to normal--last week workers stopped searching for human remains and prepared for the reconstruction--there are more opportunities to reflect. Says Lieut. Colonel Hank Cashen, a social worker normally stationed at Andrews Air Force Base: "More and more reactions and feelings are beginning to come to the surface." And with the search for remains now over, the procession of funerals will accelerate. This week...
...have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having seen a movie, experiencing ceaseless diarrhea). You are having a normal reaction to an abnormal event...
...alert, but they have also told us to get out and see a movie, order a steak, maybe fly to see Aunt Lisa in Palm Springs. Behind the mixed message is a question: How can we strike a balance between watching for future attacks and getting on with normal life...