Okay, I'm Going to ... (9/11 Tenth Anniversary)

[dawn_felagund]

All day, I've known that I should write this post, but I didn't want to. I knew I should because I want this journal to represent my life and times, so to speak, and how could I just ignore a day like today?

I honestly find myself without much to say today.

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

Yes. Exactly.

I suppose I'm still angry (and a little ashamed of myself) for buying whole-hog into the post-9/11 solidarity-patriot thing. I feel like that was taken advantage of to allow those deaths to compound the way your stats show.

I just read about your painful-sounding dental surgery ... yikes! Hope you feel better soon! *hugs*

[keiliss]

Thank you. I'm not American so I won't express an opinion, not today of all days, but your posts are proof of how much better/safer/saner the world would be if people just stopped and thought things through! The statistics Nienna quoted above speak for themselves - the world is showing no signs of becoming a safer place for anyone.

[mirien]

The rest of the world doesn't feel sorry for America, that would suggest a certain detachment, but it does feel anger, grief and pain for what happened to its citizens and perhaps what it inspired afterwards. What I'm trying to say is the world stands with America, not to take away from American grief, but to perhaps state that such a massive human tragedy hits anyone with any sense of empathy very hard. I spent quite a bit of today in tears, still trying to make sense of it after 10 long years and still failing.

[ellynn_ithilwen]

What I do feel sorry for are innocent lives lost, and their families and friends grieving for them. It doesn't matter, for me, if the victims or Americans, or Australians, or Estonians or whoever. What makes me sad is that so many people died, and why? Because of fanatics.
I cried yesterday. Because, for me, 9/11 was not (only) a crime against America, but against mankind.

[just_jenni]

Yes. Right on. It's okay to feel anger and sadness. But to use them the right way and try to do something positive to make this a better world is much more meaningful than turning it into hate or reaming out someone who isn't 'showing' their anger in the same way you are. And I think it could become a better world if we spent less (time, money, effort) on fighting wars and turned that energy into trying to build a better place to live. :(♥