I don't feel safer, nor do I feel unsafe. Their presence to me doesn't really matter. My own opinion is it's theater. Maybe serves as a deterrent to some nobody that may consider doing something stupid.
The last "major" foreign attack in NYC before 9/11 was at WTC in '93. We went that time without any visible military presence.
I was a teenager riding the subway to school every day from the Rockaways to the Bronx. At no time did I feel unsafe, was I worried about another attack. I'd think it safe to say I wasn't alone, we moved on.
No military presence. No NYPD walking around the streets with automatic rifles. No terror alert levels, no reminder on the news every night that we have to remain vigilant. No "See Something Say Something" every where you go. Oh, and it was supposedly the same group involved in both attacks.
There was a small explosive set off several years ago in the passageway at the Times Square subway station. The police and military presence did nothing to prevent it.
If someone or some group is determined, it's going to happen. At least that's my view, military presence or not.
I don't feel safer, nor do I feel unsafe. Their presence to me doesn't really matter. My own opinion is it's theater. Maybe serves as a deterrent to some nobody that may consider doing something stupid.
The last "major" foreign attack in NYC before 9/11 was at WTC in '93. We went that time without any visible military presence.
I was a teenager riding the subway to school every day from the Rockaways to the Bronx. At no time did I feel unsafe, was I worried about another attack. I'd think it safe to say I wasn't alone, we moved on.
No military presence. No NYPD walking around the streets with automatic rifles. No terror alert levels, no reminder on the news every night that we have to remain vigilant. No "See Something Say Something" every where you go. Oh, and it was supposedly the same group involved in both attacks.
There was a small explosive set off several years ago in the passageway at the Times Square subway station. The police and military presence did nothing to prevent it.
If someone or some group is determined, it's going to happen. At least that's my view, military presence or not.