september eleventh, two thousand and six

[newfoundgirlie5]

i feel sort of dumb & emo posting this, because on 9/11 nothing drastic in my personal life really changed. however, it affected me on this barely conscious level and it really is one of those things where you remember forever where you were when it happened. Also, there is something about watching the tragedy unfold on the news, gasping at the new

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[tinyspoon]

God, I love Jon Stewart. That was awesome. Not only what he said, but that he was emotional on national television. Rather than talking about how bad everything is, he focused on the good, which is nice. And he was right. For an instant, we DID stop hating one another, and we helped one another. We stopped judging people by the color of their skin, and we just helped one another.

Too bad it didn't last very long.

I don't know. The world is a scary, scary place these days. 9/11 taught us that something awful can happen to us, even US, out of the middle of nowhere. We are not immune. And that is a scary thought. And the idea that we can't really protect ourselves--even if we don't allow water on airplanes--is the scariest of all.

I think people lose sight of 9/11 as a human issue, now that it's been 5 years. It's so political, esp because the bush administration has been using it as an excuse for so long. It's sad. I remember the day it happened how absolutely terrified I was. I was in college and my mom called. She was terrified and she said, "turn on the news, Sara. The country is under attack." To watch it on TV was so incredibly surreal. And I remember my college friends and I all got together, and we were so scared. We all knew the country was going to war, and we figured they'd reinstate the draft. We didn't know how many people had been killed in the attack. My roommate had three relatives that worked in the WTC. It was terrifying.

What bothered me the most is after it happened, the media wouldn't stop running the footage. Every time I saw it I would burst into tears. But they played it so much that I eventually disconnected myself from the images, just like the rest of the country did. And then it turned into a political issue instead of a human issue. A reason to kill more people, rather than take a step back and figure out what the best course of action actually is. And now it's STILL being used as a political issue, and that really bothers me. I don't trust anyone after 9/11, especially not the government or the media. It just seems like the media MUST be in the hands of the government, because they KEEP running those images every time Bush wants to attack somebody else.

UGH. Sorry.