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NO MORE CHILDREN, Nancy Hopkins with illustration by Cyndi Harris, September 15, 2001

Not today. Not for a very long time.

We have toddlers, too young to even see the drama that has consumed those who had been our children.

We have young bodies, with years of growth ahead, but we have no children.

In one sudden, violent, unbelievable act, generations of children lost that unique quality that keeps them children.

There is a difference between the way a child's mind works and that of an adult mind.

A child asks a question and has it answered. There is no need for a child to think beyond question and answer.

An adult mind journeys into internal mental realities, searching for answers to questions that no one seems able to answer.

A child becomes an adult the very moment they ask the question that no one, no one anywhere can answer.

We have no children anymore in America.

I know. I understand what happened on September 11, 2001.

It happened to me. It happened to my generation.

It happened on November 22, 1963 when a President was Assassinated.

The question that destroyed my childhood mind was also one of violent death.

"What kind of madness, what kind of world, what kind of humanity, what kind of God would allow such a senseless act?

No answer. No children anymore.

It took much more this time. Instead of one man killing and one man dying,
it took two towers, four planes, 19 suicides, and thousands dying.

My generation grew up searching for answers through drugs, or teachers, or philosophies, or war protesting, or free love.
My generation, the 60's generation, we failed you.

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