I have watched a few programmes on 9/11 over the last few days. I thought about how i had felt when it happened, and although I was shocked and outraged at the attacks, because i didn't know anyone involved in it, it didn't feel real to me. Does that make sense? After watching these programmes, and seeing how the victims and their families have suffered, I feel emotionally battered. It brought it home to me just how devastating it was and I feel gutted that I didn't get it before. It made me realise how selfish we can be, that if it doesn't affect our lives, we carry on as normal.
I hope the victims and their families of 9/11 find peace and I hope we can stop these atrocities before even more innocent lives are destroyed.
2006-09-11 00:01:43 · 16 answers · asked by Emma W 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I notice people are being criticised for asking questions on 9/11. Ok, so its been mentioned on answers today already..... so what? Aren't i entitled to voice my opinion? Do i have to ask a different question just because someone already else asked about 9/11? Grow up.
2006-09-11 00:57:15 · update #1
I know exactly wot you mean !!! When it first happened and i was watching it on the TV it didn't seem real ,,, it was like watching a movie....but after watching the programmes recently it does make you more aware of what happened !!! I don't think we could even begin to understand how big it was unless we were there.....It was tragic
2006-09-11 00:05:32 · answer #1 · answered by tinkerbell 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow I thought about posting a question, but then I though I better look for what was on here first. It is a way to conserve point. Well I looked up 9/11 and there were 738 posts open or something. Yours was first so I am jumping on.
I remember that day all to well. My aunt mentioned yesterday how I called her and woke her up and told her we were at war. She started crying. I did not know the magnitude of what was happening yet. The 2nd plane had just crashed. I was on my way to work and almost had a wreck because of the radio.
I will never forget that day. What has been made of it now is something different, but that day was full of people helping one another. This was a time the nation was tight and united. It did not matter what party we belonged to we were all Americans. I felt like everything else seemed so in significant. All the bickering between people. I went to med ways with 2 people. One let me and the other did not respond. I saw her later however.
I hope we can get back to a day when we as Americans can stand united again for a common good. Take something bad and make it into something that shows our good.
2006-09-11 03:23:24 · answer #2 · answered by adobeprincess 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not alone. There is nothing wrong with feeling a sense of loss for people that are suffering in other places. I can remember the day well because I was laid off at the time. For me it was really dramatic because I am not a person that likes to watch TV in the morning, but I did on that day, as weird as it sounds I got up made my coffee and turned on the TV. It was around nine am and I watched TV for the next three days without cable. I remember the shock and then I started to cry when I realized that the people were being burned alive. For me at least, to commit murder on such a grand scale is evil without any direction. I still think there is a lot we don't know about the terrible event. If it happens again I think we should use nuclear weapons to counter the terror, but in some ways I believe that there is a greater force lurking behind the loss, something that turns in the favor of the people that benefited from the collapse of the trade towers. If it is revealed in the future that a conspiracy did exist, I hope those people burn in hell for eternity. I was watching the names a short while ago on CNN and it appears a good number of the people that lost their lives were from 20-45 years old. About the same age as the people running our military surveillance. I hope that they are watching all of the angles of terror and not just the ones from the Middle East. I hope the CIA is watching the FBI and the NSA is watching as well. Who knows are next batch of evil could come from with in our own government, after all they did allow an hour and one half breech in air security five years ago.
2006-09-11 00:27:41 · answer #3 · answered by tadpoleslider 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people would do nothing if they walked past a beggar on the street. They would ignore it, it does not affect their lives.
Personally, I feel sympathy for both the families and the beggars on the streets of Manhattan and London.
It does not affect your life much to help a beggar on the street, but it can affect their life a lot.
I hope that everyone starts treating other people with more human dignity.
One must have sympathy, empathy, and understanding of terrorists in order to be able to have genuine understanding of the plight of those suffering the consequences of terrorism. Terrorists are expressing their anger.
What is their anger saying to you? Revenge? Kill the terrorists? Or can you take a step back and say, what is the cause of terrorism. Can we prevent the cause, rather than attack the symptoms?
2006-09-11 00:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by James 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was such an evil atrocity and all my thoughts are with the victims and their families today. I have watched a couple of things on TV over the last few days and it is just so sad and completey senseless how all these innocent people lost their lives.
2006-09-11 01:34:00 · answer #5 · answered by TB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's pretty bad. It rips you apart when you think about the families, or all of those children without parents... children who were born after the attacks and will never know their fathers.
I have friends who lost relatives, it hit pretty close to home. Lots of firefighters from my area died in the wreckage. It sucks, but I think it's important to rebuild and move on. Just never forget.
2006-09-11 00:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by trash1ey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saw it unfold by newsflash on the internet at work.
Growing disbelief and horror.
I remember crying uncontrollably when I got home from work and it shocked me. I knew no one there. I realise now its because I saw it on TV.
2006-09-11 02:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by Ice Queen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel the same, like salt in a open wound.
Anger , frustration and sadness.
Now I know better how the country must have felt after "Pearl".
2006-09-11 01:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Loose Change video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&hl=en
Debate between Loose Change and Popular Mechanics
http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl?issue=20060911
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
- Charles Baudelaire
2006-09-11 04:52:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Television set is produced to the cheapest common denominator - i.e., the common IQ of everyone, whereas a written publication is written to the best common denominator
2017-03-03 16:53:08 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋