2 years since 11/9

[BeBMan]

Well, I was at home, had to work in the evening that day. Watched a bit TV while eating something - then there was first a news bar saying something like "a plane crashed into the WTC" and I thought it was one of those little Cessna-type private planes. Then the program was interrupted, and I saw the tower burning. Then I had to watch the second plane crashing into the other tower....

Sad day. It still makes me kinda sad today. I can´t understand the "get over it" attitude. It was IMO one of the most inhumane acts, if one agrees with US policies or not.

[rah]

We saw what getting over previous attacks got us.

So I would answer no also.

[MikeH]

It's not a question of getting over it. It's something we should keep remembering so that we're aware what well organised terrorists can achieve.

We should probably also realise that military action against other countries isn't going to 'end terrorism'.

Hasn't worked for us in the UK with Northern Ireland, or India, or Russia with Chechnya, didn't work for the Russians in Afghanistan... why should it work now?

Of course it's absolutely vital that we all continue to combat terrorism. Just do it in a way that might actually help.

[FrustratedPoet]

It depends what you mean by "get over it". If that is a euphemism for "stick your head in the sand, pretend it never happened and hope it never happens again" then I say NO.

If it's supposed to mean "stop wallowing in self-pity and move on with your lives" then I'd say YES, but almost all the Americans I have contact with did that at least a year ago anyway.

[JohnT]

I was driving to work, listening to the Tony Bruno Extravaganza and he and Andrew were talking about the media reaction towards Michael Jordan thinking of returning to basketball (again). In a joking voice Tony said "Believe it or not CNN has actually broken away from its 24-hour, wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Jordan to bring you pictures of a building on fire."

Andrew: "I think that's the World Trade Center."

"Get out of here.... wait, it is!"
"Man, that's a huge hole in it! Did a plane crash into it?"

That's when I got to work and found that a number of people had broken out some old TV sets that we kept in the back room and were fiddling with aerials, trying to get some decent reception. I called my wife ASAP and said "Turn on CNN!"

[Q Classic]

a column epitomizing of the "get over it already". i don't quite agree with it, and i honestly think getting over something supremely traumatic is not something that comes easy.

after all, we don't tell the japanese to get over the nuking. (at least, not all of us do.)

where was i?

at ga tech. visitng friends already at college, a few days before i was to leave. saw it in the student center, thought it was a movie. went to meet friend, and then found out it was real.

[Ming]

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