9/11 (one day late)
I'd meant to post something, just for myself, yesterday. But time got away from me, and I considered not posting anything at all. But then I read thinkerofthunks' LJ entry about it yesterday and it got me thinking again.
I agree with a lot of what she said in her post about it. I had planned to watch some of the news coverage yesterday, but the little bits I did see just annoyed me. I felt like none of it was all that appropriate for remembering that day. And I, too, am sick of the "I was in my car..." blah blah blah stories. I'm sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing, but how does that relate to the importance of this day?
When I got home Sunday night, I was going to go to bed and read, but I checked the tv first. I found that documentary on CBS that was done on the firefighters. It was the first 9/11 special I'd watched that had NO political bias or blame or anything. It was just the stories of those firemen on that day. It was hard to watch through the footage again, but I thought it was a very tasteful and fitting way to remember all of those who were there that day.
When I hear news anchors talk about how "all our lives changed that day" it annoys the heck out of me. We may think about security and terrorism and a number of things more often now than we did before, but unless we lost someone in those attacks, or were there and survived them, our lives really didn't change that much. Their lives were changed, and those are the people who should be thought of and remembered and honored today. Not the rest of us.
The one personal thought I do have, though, is that for some reason I connect all of you guys (my online friends) to that event. Most of us had met/talked before, and some not until afterwards, but when I think back to that day, and how much time has passed, I think of each one of you and how grateful I am for our friendship.
I agree with a lot of what she said in her post about it. I had planned to watch some of the news coverage yesterday, but the little bits I did see just annoyed me. I felt like none of it was all that appropriate for remembering that day. And I, too, am sick of the "I was in my car..." blah blah blah stories. I'm sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing, but how does that relate to the importance of this day?
When I got home Sunday night, I was going to go to bed and read, but I checked the tv first. I found that documentary on CBS that was done on the firefighters. It was the first 9/11 special I'd watched that had NO political bias or blame or anything. It was just the stories of those firemen on that day. It was hard to watch through the footage again, but I thought it was a very tasteful and fitting way to remember all of those who were there that day.
When I hear news anchors talk about how "all our lives changed that day" it annoys the heck out of me. We may think about security and terrorism and a number of things more often now than we did before, but unless we lost someone in those attacks, or were there and survived them, our lives really didn't change that much. Their lives were changed, and those are the people who should be thought of and remembered and honored today. Not the rest of us.
The one personal thought I do have, though, is that for some reason I connect all of you guys (my online friends) to that event. Most of us had met/talked before, and some not until afterwards, but when I think back to that day, and how much time has passed, I think of each one of you and how grateful I am for our friendship.