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How something so far away effects us locally Another anniversary of the catastrophe that was the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center has just past again this last week and once again we all should have paused to consider the profound effects that this incident had on all of our lives. Whilst it might have happened nearly 20 years ago and in another country it changed the way in which we go about our daily lives forever as a consequence. Yes, it even effects the lives of all of us living here in Maleny, irrespective of what we as individuals might think about the causes of the incident. It was an incident of such signi cance that almost all of us can remember exactly where we
were and what we were doing when we rst heard that dreadful news - so many innocent people killed as a result of a deliberate act. The subsequent actions taken by the United States of America and its allies, including Australia in consequence changed the course of world history in ways that we are still evaluating twenty years later. Yes, it did effect Maleny and s u r ro u n d s a s a n u m b e r o f members of our community who were in the defence forces had to go to Afghanistan and Iraq to ght “for our rights”. It also changed the way that we went about day to day tasks such as travelling, especially on aircraft, visiting certain buildings where security was increased and put the Australian population at some further risk as a result of internal terrorist actions. It also placed a deal of pressure on the global nancial scene which effected the individuals nancial plans through such
things as a less stable economy. So you cannot say it did not effect us all to some degree. We should all take heed of how these incidents can directly and indirectly lead to the changing of the lives of everyone on the surface of the earth to some degree. Why are we talking about it here you may ask? It is important to remember what incidents have changed our history and how they changed it. We also need to remember those innocent people from all around the world who died, either directly on that day or during the ensuing years as a consequence of the incidents that occurred on that day and do whatever is necessary to reduce the chances of similar incidents happening again. The world today is a very different world to that of twenty- ve years ago and that rather innocent world will never return and much of that innocence was taken away by incidents such as those that happened on September 11th, 2001.
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Friday, 18 September 2020