Word: traumas
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...presidential office at a time of crisis. He counseled his son to return to Washington as soon as possible, as soon as the Secret Service was satisfied there would be no follow-up attack, instructions the President had already given his detail. Much of the talk even in this trauma and at that level of authority was father-son talk, reasserting his faith that No. 43 was up to the task. The later news reports of his son hunkered down in an Omaha, Neb., bunker irritated his father, even though he had learned long ago that every presidential move...
...Certainly countless lives could have been saved if the Air Force planes tailing the two WTC-bound airliners had fired away and put the debris in the Hudson River. The national trauma would have been greatly mitigated. But America, having averted the unthinkable, would then be left with something else - a government with American blood on its hands. Such stains, however, may demand an accountability that Maj. Gen. Larry K. Arnold, a two-star at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, may not have the stature to offer...
Happily, most experts don't expect the edginess to last. People who lost a loved one will naturally need a long period of grieving to recover. But others could move on fairly quickly. The acute anxiety that follows a trauma typically lasts one to three weeks before the feeling fades. It's only after three months elapse and the symptoms persist that true post-traumatic stress disorder sets...
...heat shields and blankets. Another, propelled forward by a ruptured steam pipe, is scorched along his back and the back of his legs but was miraculously spared on the entire front of his body--a stark representation of the arbitrary line drawn between health and injury, normality and trauma, life and death...
...presidential office at a time of crisis. He counseled his son to return to Washington as soon as possible, as soon as the Secret Service was satisfied there would be no follow-up attack, instructions the President had already given his detail. Much of the talk even in this trauma and at that level of authority was father-son talk, reasserting his faith that No. 43 was up to the task. The later news reports of his son hunkered down in an Omaha, Neb., bunker irritated his father, even though he had learned long ago that every presidential move...