While there is justified relief that Osama Bin Laden is dead, the threat from terrorism in the United States and abroad remains high. This fact has been reiterated time and again in the newscasts of the last 24 hours. No one is under the impression that the news that Bin Laden is no longer personally a threat, is an indication that the terrorist threats that he came to symbolize in our generation are a thing of the past. These attacks will go on as carried out by others.
This means that terrorist attacks are among the many threats, natural and man-made, that we still need to be prepared for. How do we as ordinary citizens perpare for such events? We prepare just as we would for other catastophic events. We have an emergency kit and emergency supplies ready to evacuate of shelter-in-place (according to the need), we have a plan as to what to do, and we stay informed both before and after such an event.
Though there are areas of our country that naturally are more likely targets of terrorist attacks, experience have taught us that no place in our country is completely safe from such attacks from foreign or domestic terrorists. Therefore all of us should be prepared for the impact of such terrorist attacks.
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