Margaret Moore and Fort Belvoir Elementary School

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Finding the "new normal" is a way of life for kids and families at Fort Belvoir Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. Of course, according to Margaret Moore, school psychologist at Fort Belvoir, "That's the nature of life in the military. There is constant movement and change." And, since 9/11, a constant sense of uncertainty and risk.

Less than 15 miles from the Pentagon, the September 11 attacks were very close to homeforthe Fort Belvoir community. Physical proximity was compoundedby emotional proximity both because a number of students and staff had family working at the Pentagon and because of the frontline nature of the inevitable military response. As at many …