We are all working, doing what we each is trained to do. Each officer walks around with a heaviness inside as they go about their jobs. It is a way of telling those responsible that they have not won, that America will just dig in deeper and that we will find them and punish them. Each person who was in the building on Aug. 7 still carries the bomb around inside, and will for a very long time. Every time I enter a building, I can feel the bomb.
Elevators are a real test, because they seem to bring the bomb out most quickly.
The weeks since August 7 have been difficult for all of us. We have buried so many people. We are all coping. The bomb is very present in the children's consciousness. They are nervous about my going off each morning to the temporary embassy.