I spend a portion of September 11th at UW-Milwaukee. I had had plans to hang out with my friend who had just started school there. She was living in the only dorms on campus which were giant (by Milwaukee standards) towers that housed the entire freshman population. Instead of doing all the fun stuff we had planned for the afternoon, we stayed in one of her new friends’ dorm rooms and watched the news coverage on his small crackling TV. I don’t remember the name of the kid whose room we were in, but he was from Afghanistan, and the specific flavor of abject horror in his eyes when reports started coming in about this being an attack perpetrated by Islamic terrorists is perfectly captured here.