Summary

Jake convinces his father to let him walk to school even though his mother would not like that. Jake walks to Sam’s house that has a flag on it, and he wishes he was old enough to go to war, but Aamber maintains that things will continue to be messed up as long as everyone is so willing to fight everybody else. They talk about how there is rumor that the government shot down the plane in Pennsylvania, and Jake thinks it would be awful to have to do that. Jake thinks he would have panicked had he heard his father was on a plane that the passengers wrestled from the hijackers, but he thinks he would be brave enough to help save others if he were in the actual plane. They talk about how Mohamed Atta was from their town...