Kids TALK BACK

-- Interviews and photos by Bryce Alderton

The Daily Pilot visited seventh- and eighth-graders at Costa Mesa High

School and asked them, “What worries you most about the recent terrorist

attacks?”

“Too many people -- parents, brothers, sisters realizing that [their

loved ones] aren’t coming back.”

Ilya Kravchenko, 13

Costa Mesa

“The bad guys might bring a war on us and everything is going to get

messed up.”

Miguel Espinosa, 12

Costa Mesa

“I have 19-year-old friends that might get drafted to war and not come

back.”

Jake Maunder, 12

Costa Mesa

“Having people starting to point fingers at a whole bunch of others

and starting a big war. I’m also afraid of [terrorist attacks] happening

again with more plane crashes and bomb scares.”

Diann Heinrichs, 12

Costa Mesa

“As a Muslim, I stand shivering. Some people are killed because

they’re Muslims.”

Nikki Pierstorff, 12

Costa Mesa