The security in this country became tighter, and people felt more vulnerable in their own country. It changed the way Americans think about the rest of the world. It also drove some people to be more aware of what is happening in the world and nationally than they were before.
Now we screen more carefully at airports and borders got tighter. Sept. 11, 2001, changed how we thought and acted in the United States.
I think these were the biggest changes in my lifetime."
Erin Cline, eighth-grader
Joseph Lane Middle School
"The biggest change that I have seen in my lifetime relates to all the technological advances we have achieved in the last 17 years. I think the great advances in technology have become so mainstream that they have changed how everyone in our society functions. Computers and cell phones were once something that very few could afford to have; now they have become so small and inex




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