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#1: I've seen strange things in they sky, but I doubt they were spacecraft.
#2: Yes.
#3: No.
#4: Yes. Physical contact, even.
#5: Yes, but nothing on an impressive scale.
#6-#7: Unsure.

I only recently started primary work, but due to my massive experience with secondary work, it kind of came naturaly to me. I've been doing it every other day, but still haven't gone out of body.

First, let me say that I am surprised to find so many opinions here that are not mainstream and, gladdly, more like mine regarding the issue. I have been hassled for my seemingly radical opinions (ie, America isn't all it's cracked up to be) and theories (ie, Osama has been in Cleaveland for the past two years)
During all the remembrance ceremonies, candelight virgils, paradaes, etc, I just sat around and went on with my life. I gave a moment of remembrance for the victims, but too few focus on the victims so much as they focus the buildings as a whole, or those considered 'heros', or American self-esteem, and many seem particularly ignorant regarding that last point.
Waving a bunch of flags doesn't make you a patirot. It makes you a flag-waving yes-man. By standing up for my beliefs despite their unpopularity as I have been doing ever sense I learned to think for myself, is more American than a bunch of flags ever could be.
Also, while I'm on the topic: Flag waving yes-men: If you are going to put up flags everywhere, at least pretend that you respect it. If I was someone who cared about the flag, I'd be insulted when I saw a tattered flag exposed to the elements on a car antenna, or flag-patterned boxer shorts at the store. Thirty years ago there was outrage when rock stars wore the flag as a shirt. My point is, if you think you are patriotic when you put the flag up everywhere, at least act like you understand the flags role as a symbol.
Yes, I was one of the few people I knew who was opposed to attacking afganistan (I thought if these terrorists were half as smart as we talked about them being, they would have a trap waiting for us) And it turned out okay. We had to bring the criminals to justice (I'm still not sure if Karmic law is part of my beiliefs) We had minimal casualites. But we can't forget all the innocents taken out by our seemingly-randomly fired cruise missiles. During the afgan-stage of the "war" on terrorism, we would hear news stories like "american killed by enemy fire" or "three americans die in helecopter crash" how many people did we lose over there? 20? What of the taliban loses? Northern Aliance? Innocent civilians? Hundreds? Thousands? Apart from the terrorist attacks, we've been pretty easy during this war. During the Gulf War, we lost fewer soldiers there than if they same number had stayed home and died in car accidents and such. America knows how to fight a war effecintly, although I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
There. I've had my two cents. As you can imagine, I have alot of random anger towards my country, and fortunantly that's about all the anger I carry.

Unless you are too drunk to read the label, take some painkillers right before you go to sleep. That always works for me.