Whether the entire country should have been traumatized by those events, I don't know--I don't find it very useful to tell people they shouldn't be feeling what they do feel, whether that's delight in a child or friend's accomplishment, or sadness over the death of someone they never met.
I should note that I'm posting this from New York City. I know someone who is alive today only because we had a primary election and she voted before work, and thus hadn't arrived at the World Trade Center when the planes hit. And someone else who seriously considered getting a tattoo with the names of the 14 coworkers he lost that day. I'm lucky--nobody I know died there, and I was uptown that day, not stuck in the subway with vague announcements about "police activity at Chambers Street" and eventually coming up to the street level to see the smoke.
Everyone I know here spent time, those days, checking in and assuring people all over the world that we were still alive. I have never been so glad I don't own a television as in September 2001--I saw the horrible images, but not over and over.
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Date: 2006-04-27 06:26 pm (UTC)I should note that I'm posting this from New York City. I know someone who is alive today only because we had a primary election and she voted before work, and thus hadn't arrived at the World Trade Center when the planes hit. And someone else who seriously considered getting a tattoo with the names of the 14 coworkers he lost that day. I'm lucky--nobody I know died there, and I was uptown that day, not stuck in the subway with vague announcements about "police activity at Chambers Street" and eventually coming up to the street level to see the smoke.
Everyone I know here spent time, those days, checking in and assuring people all over the world that we were still alive. I have never been so glad I don't own a television as in September 2001--I saw the horrible images, but not over and over.