Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 It changed everything. It was eight years ago. Oversight? Disinterest? I will never forget sitting in my office and screaming at the radio "STOP IT!". Seeing the shots of the planes crashing, the burning towers, the jumpers, the towers coming down... Damn. Everything changed. We actually acted like everything had changed for about three weeks. Then we seemingly forgot. I won't forget. Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 People have widely varied personal responses to today's date, and expressing them on a message board is not always the best way of dealing with those feelings. In fact, reading about other people's feelings on a message board isn't always a great way of dealing, either. I think the lack of comment today isn't about oversight, disinterest, or a memory lapse. Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted September 11, 2009 Author Share Posted September 11, 2009 People have widely varied personal responses to today's date, and expressing them on a message board is not always the best way of dealing with those feelings. In fact, reading about other people's feelings on a message board isn't always a great way of dealing, either. I think the lack of comment today isn't about oversight, disinterest, or a memory lapse. I desperately hope you're right. But somehow we manage to comment on any other subject (important, inane, sublime, ridiculous, venal, hopeful, stupid) that comes in the head of any poster here. But I will take your subtext critique under advisement. Close it if you like. Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 No subtext/critique intended. You, and anyone else who's interested, are more than welcome to talk about any subject you want (within reason and within civil bounds, of course... I am a moderator, after all!). I'm just saying that there might be good reason for some people to not want to talk about this here. Don't assume the worst of us. Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I find it hard to think about. I still cannot watch images from that day. Time has not healed my wounds yet, I guess. Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I had a couple of thoughts about it this morning on the way to court. one of them was a realization that it may not be the best day to be in a giant courthouse, which I eventually dismissed on the theory that living in fear is worthless and a waste of energy. the next one was a memory of the kindness that people seemed to show one another in the days and weeks following the event, which has disappeared entirely. I saw a moving scene on the way downtown of a circle of about 6 people in apparent memorial. very touching. Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Spent all day talking about it with 12-year-olds. They were 4 at the time. One of my students said her dad was on the other side of the Pentagon when the plane crashed. I sometimes think I should chuck out my social studies curriculum and just teach history backwards from whatever is going on in the world today. Trace the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan back through the discovery of oil in the Mideast, the Arab/Israeli conflict, and even back to the Crusades. Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 By John Hodgman http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/9/11hodgman.html Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 The image that is permanently seared into my brain isn't the planes hitting the towers, it's those people jumping out of the towers. Easily the most horrifying thing I've ever had the misfortune to see live. Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 The History Channel has been showing a magnificent program called 102 Minutes That Changed America. It is a compilation of video and audio recordings in time sequence taken by people in the City. No Commentary, No Commercials...the most moving program I have ever seen. I'll close the thread now. It appears we really aren't ready to talk about this day...even 8 years later. Link to post Share on other sites
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