senseandsensibility
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:31 AM
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Does anyone else still cry when they think about the victims? |
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I cried every day for weeks after 9-11. The thought of the terror and suffering of those poor people was unbearable to me. In those days, before the intense politicization of the attack, I saw it in very human terms. I still do.
Today should be about them. I haven't watched a second of the TV coverage, but I have cried. All it took was the thought of those anguished souls jumping from the burning buildings. I still can't bear it.:cry:
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:33 AM
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1. Not cry exactly, but I never got beyond sadness |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 11:33 AM by socialist_n_TN
When the MSM was trumpeting the public going past sadness to anger, I never got there.
And 10 years later, I'm STILL not there.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:33 AM
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Still hurts 10 years later.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:37 AM
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3. Babies born posthumously because of politics and terror ,is tragic |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 11:40 AM by orpupilofnature57
I cry when I hear those heroes inside the buildings on radios reassuring each other.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:39 AM
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4. No. The one thing that made me teary was hearing about the Jewish volunteers who sat at Ground Zero |
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because of the tradition that a corpse must not be alone before burial. I found that moving.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:41 AM
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:46 AM
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6. I cannot even think about |
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those poor people in the towers. It is too horrific.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:50 AM
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7. I don't cry, but I do think about the terror that they must have felt |
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when they realized what was probably happening, that they had to jump or burn to death...
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:53 AM
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8. I was in Manhattan almost daily during late Sept and Oct that year and |
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the most heartbreaking thing for me was all the posters of the missing people. They were hung everywhere, smiling photos of people with their names and a contact number. I couldn't walk down the street without crying.
Even now that's what haunts me, all those smiling faces never to be seen again.
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Sun Sep-11-11 12:28 PM
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20. I saw that on TV from California |
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:53 AM
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9. In all honesty, no, I don't. |
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I never cried. All I felt was anger. Anger that this could've been prevented if Bush would've done something to prevent it when he had the chance to.
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Sun Sep-11-11 01:21 PM
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23. Anger was the cause of some of my tears |
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I cry when I get angry. So yes, I understand your anger.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:56 AM
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10. no. I feel as badly for them as I do all people who died in bad |
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accidents, or tragedies or wars. But, no I don't cry.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:56 AM
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11. And Americans who die from lack of basic healthcare |
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:58 AM
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12. Yep, and the ones who are in homeless camps today |
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wondering how they are going to get dinner...I am thinking of them pretty hard today-
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:59 AM
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13. Yes. I still cry, especially when I see a survivor or relative of a victim cry |
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I know what it is to lose someone suddenly. My brother died in an accident.
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Sun Sep-11-11 01:27 PM
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that's all it takes for me...to see someone else cry.
Sometimes I've gone to a wake and cried in the receiving line when the family have been crying, even if I didn't really know the deceased.
Last time that happened, the deceased person's grown daughter was trying to comfort ME. Sigh...embarrassing...
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Sun Sep-11-11 12:01 PM
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14. I have the image of people jumping to their deaths seared into my brain. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 04:50 PM
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31. This image has stayed with me from the live coverage. The photographs drilled it in. |
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The photo of the woman standing at the edge of the gaping hole (I think where a plane entered) haunts me.
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Sun Sep-11-11 12:06 PM
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For those that perished that day and what was surely their agonizing terror. For all those lost since, both military and civilian... those of us who remember pre 9/11, I think we also mourn for the false sense of innocence lost.
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Sun Sep-11-11 12:11 PM
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17. it's terrible, as so many other things. |
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I just can't find myself picking this event as suffering at it's ultimate. There is so much all over the world every year, every day, every minute that is unimaginably horrible.
I feel for the individuals that lost so much, but balling thsi up into some kind of Event Situation of Celebration or something just feels all wrong. Where the Guiliani's can capitalize on it for their own egos and such. I can't bear watching any of that on the tv. It's like one huge big sappy Halmark greeting card.
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Sun Sep-11-11 12:12 PM
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18. No I don't cry for them. I didn't know anyone who died |
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there personally. I am saddened for their families and all the waste of lives.
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Sun Sep-11-11 12:25 PM
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19. I don't. I didn't know any of them personally, and it's been 10 years. |
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I think of the whole ugly mess with sadness and a heavy sigh.
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Sun Sep-11-11 01:04 PM
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21. does "victims" include the huge numbers of people our military murdered in Iraq as well? nt |
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Sun Sep-11-11 01:19 PM
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22. I was strongly against the invasion of Iraq |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 01:59 PM by senseandsensibility
from the very beginning, and protested before and during it. I'm against everything that happened as a result, and I blame the previous administration. Yes, I've cried about that, too.
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Sun Sep-11-11 01:23 PM
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24. When it first happened I didn't cry until |
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they started telling personal stories.
People out putting up posters with their loved ones' faces on them, hoping they hadn't been in the towers but might be wandering around the city someplace in shock.
All together, the 3000+ deaths were too much to digest.
But individually...yes. I cried.
I still do sometimes, when I hear about one story or another.
:(
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Sun Sep-11-11 01:34 PM
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26. I do, for the people who died that day and for what America lost. n/t |
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Sun Sep-11-11 02:27 PM
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27. Yes, which is one reason I won't watch it over and over again every year. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 03:40 PM
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28. I remember the days afterwards, when relatives wandered the streets with pictures of their loved one |
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Hanging on to the slim possibility that their father, brother, sister, mother, son or daughter had escaped death somehow. Talking to the reporters about their loved one, asking everyone to keep looking. I cried so many times those days.
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Sun Sep-11-11 03:46 PM
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29. Yes, especially when I remember the jumpers. |
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Nothing scarred my psyche as badly as those people who jumped rather than burn to death. Maybe it's because of the photos that documented it. I just pray that they felt no pain. It was so horrible.
:(
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:42 PM
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32. What made me cry hard was a few months later when NBC did a special on how |
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muslims were being treated when they visited ground zero. They had hidden cameras. People came up to them and said "are you okay, are you being left alone". And it was waterworks for me.
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:59 PM
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33. I couldn't shake sad thoughts last night (9/10/11) |
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That 10 years ago on 9/10/11 families were spending their last night with their loved ones...last everything...how they probably went about their average evening chores, playtime, meals, everything else. Never in their wildest nightmares could they have suspected what was to come in a few hours time.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:06 PM
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34. No, I didn't lose any loved ones that day. |
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Normally, I have never cried for non family relatives or myself. I didn't cry for Katrina victims despite living there at the time. I haven't shed any tears for the 4000 plus military members who have died since Bush utilized 9/11 to start a long, expensive war in Iraq which had no relation to 9/11 attackers.
In a completely stoic world, I have wept for my dog's passing last March but little else. The thought of the wasteful deaths and truck loads of American dollars spent specifically to seek retribution on one individual makes me want to scream, but not cry. Why? Oh Why? Some retribution against the training camps in Afghanistan was warranted, but we are now going on 9 years of really punishing ourselves for Bush's great folly, which he never apologized for or took accountable for. Grrrrr
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:12 PM
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35. No, I am more saddened that the military industrial police state complex took over that day. |
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And we haven't been the same since.
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Mon Sep-12-11 02:10 AM
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36. Yeah. I mean, it's hard not to get emotional when you see it again, or when you hear about |
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the family with the one year old on the plane, that sort of thing.
Awful. Simply terrible, stupid, horrific and horrible what happened that day.
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Mon Sep-12-11 02:45 AM
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37. I can't even bear to think of it, it's so heartbreaking. nt |
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