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I still get pretty upset about 9/11. I mean, I don't think about it all the time or lose sleep, but I still get pretty upset when it gets brought up. It still makes me a bit angry, as well.
This isn't about who did what or how it happened, just a question of my feelings. I also wanted to know how other people feel about the subject, if you care to comment.
I watched a 90-minute documentary last night about scientists who deliberately crashed a 727 to study what happens (and to make things safer). In the same way car manufacturers safety test their cars. They had all kinds of sensors and cameras everywhere to film everything in minute detail. I was massively interested in what a plane crash really looks like.
When it came to it, the external shots were very un-Hollywood. There was no explosion. The nosecone broke off and folded underneath the fuselage and the plane eventually came to a stop amid the dust. Not what I was expecting but it's obvious that real life is often more prosaic.
Then they showed the plane's engines were still going. It had belly-flopped onto the ground but the engines were still producing plumes and that seemed very strange to me. It didn't feel right at all. When they showed the interior shots of what a plane crash is like, I had such an unexpected reaction. I wept. It was... just horrible. Worse than anything I imagined. Most of the people would have got out alive, they said, but I was still very shaken up by the reality of it. Then I started thinking of people who have been in plane crashes and about how unimaginably terrifying it must have been. It's normal to empathise.
They showed the Manchester air disaster too, which happened in my own city. I'd never heard from survivors before. That was worse than anything. One man talked about the acrid black smoke. Take one breath, he said, and you fell to the floor. Two breaths and you were dead.
I saw that too. How strange you cried though - perhaps your imagination is better than mine :) for me it was interesting to see the clouds of Mexican sand rolling into the air as the plane crashed along the ground. It was also interesting to see all the data regarding the high-tech dummies on board; whether or not it's best to brace, the variables that can determine which seats are the most dangerous etc. I found the experiment fascinating, but I felt detached from the human element, even though the documentary was interspersed with real plane crash footage and survivor interviews.
It was definitely a bit weird. I'd seen it advertised throughout the week and thought it looked kind of interesting, mainly from a scientific perspective. I missed the first forty-five minutes or so because it was nearly 10pm when I got home from work. When I saw the documentary was on and all the interesting stuff was still to come, I was actually quite chuffed and I really got into it.
But it was the idea of the people in the seats where things broke badly and then when they showed where the seats ended up and were fairly blunt about this being where the human remains would be, it affected me. All the debris past the window seat too. I mean, it's nothing. It's just debris of a remote control plane that was going to be scrapped anyway. But it was *awful*. I was seeing it like a passenger in a plane that was crashing. It happens. People are in that position. Seeing wings folding into nothing and the tin can they are in, on the scale of things, being as stolid as tissue paper.
I know I was sitting at home but I still put myself in the mind of the person watching it outside of the window of the plane they are unlucky enough to be on.
Eek!
It was a tragic event yes, but what about African in countries where children, women, men, basically lots of people die everyday they don't get the same attention why because they're poor. If these bombings had happened somewhere other than the US would it have garnered this much attention, I don't think so. My heart goes out to those that lost their loved ones but people give 9/11 too much attention when there are equally or much more tragedies taking place as we speak.
I can't say I share your feelings and still be called an honest man.
It was a terrible event and if I could I would have it reversed, but it's not something that makes me tear at my clothes in anguish or rage.
What pisses me off about 9/11 is that alot of people just call anyone with a beard Taliban even Sikhs and Christians and Jews. Stupid fucks can't they tell the difference.
I'm only about 45 minutes from manhatten. I was going to drive up the parkway a few miles and pull over to see it. I didn't though. At the time it would have been rather inappropriate. Most of the time I don't feel much when I think about it but other times I'm very empathetic and I can almost feel what the people went through. Like when you saw people jumping out the windows.
I couldn't say I share your feelings, because I'm not American. And globally there are lot's of things happening right now that kill thousands of innocent people. Like US drone attacks for example.
It strikes a chord with me though I won't call it hate or fear, etc. I do find it disgusting how it's become some symbol for why we should be fighting in the middle east. We lost almost 4,000 people that day yet over 100,000 have died as a direct result of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. We've had our vengeance 25 times over. Enough is enough.
"When it happened, when the towers fell I mean. I ate breakfast twenty minutes later, without a second thought towards the carnage."
- Tommy the cat, MD.
Normal.
Next is a question of who do you direct your anger toward. You want to turn it into something constructive, like justice for the ones who died and the ones who had to live without them... but who to blame?
The US Government. If nothing else, NORAD could have stopped it, but they did not. NORAD had a 100% success rate before 9/11.
I kind of care less about 9/11. Face it before 9/11 happened whales were getting murdered all day when after it happened they played and festered in happiness and their population rose again. I'm sort of glad 9/11 happened.
Now get over it, join the US armed forces and go kick some Muslim booty!
I was very angry that afternoon when I found out my Pokemon show was interrupted...
In all seriousness though, now that I'm older and realize the magnitude of the whole situation, it was a very terrible thing that happened, and I think you have every right to be mad and upset about it.
I like jokes about it~ I think people shouldn't be so upset about it unless someone they knew was there. I mean it happend, it was horrible but you can't take it back.
Yes. I watched a film recently that recalled the events that occurred between 1916-1920 when the Irish fought for their independence from Britain. Although this happened nearly a century ago, I still felt disgust in the pit at my stomach at how atrociously bad my ancestors were treated by the British "Black and Tans" troops, and I also felt some shame from what levels some Irish rebels stooped to.
Ireland is a whole different country now, both figuratively and literally. It was an era than I'm completely unattached from, but I somehow managed to connect with it emotionally. So I would consider this normal.
Maybe because I'm not American it doesn't have the same emotional impact on me. I mean I'm still in awe of the footage, and it certainly resonates with me as a significant moment in regards to foreign relations, especially between 'East' and 'West'. I just see it from a very objective point of view.
I follow international news and the quantity of suffering and awful shit happening in the world every day is fairly unchanging, and 9/11 sits along side that awful shit. There's just too much going on around us for me to focus attention on that single moment.
As I say, I expect if I was personally effected and/or I was American, I would feel more strongly about it.
Who cares about 9/11. A bigger tragedy occurred recently in the death of Amanda Todd! She showed off her tits, offered live shows of her masturbating, and fucked dudes left and right before she killed herself! I feel so bad for her, in comparison to the victims of 9/11. She deserves to be a huge phenomenon and for people to look up to her. Who cares about 9/11 anymore? Let's worship a slut!