9/11 6 years later Options

[THECHICKEN]

Anyone watching the rebroadcast of the 9/11 coverage on msnbc?

I never got to see any coverage of it because of school on the day it happened. Kind of chilling. Just the chaos is insane. The report of a car bomb at the state department kind of surprised me.

And yet osama gets to still live and release his stupid videos.

Feelings, memories, where you were... feel free to share.

[Epic]

I think I may be confused here...

your initial reaction to 9/11 was "no war"? because you said you had bigger things to work on that student council.

or were your rallies for no war against iraq?

because the workup for iraq iraq wasn't for another year or so...

no, i figured there would be war, just wasn't entirely clear with who or where. I just figured that if i came out against the war, any war, i wouldn't have much of a shot for freshman council, and so i just thought about what i found to be more important.

i didn't want us to respond to this tragedy with creating more tragedies. and some of the bombings I was ok with, but I was worried about another Kosovo where too many bombs miss the mark and a lot of collateral damage would outweigh the benefit to me.

but this is all my opinion, just the way i felt.

not that i would have changed the world one way or another.

[jonathan83]

no, i figured there would be war, just wasn't entirely clear with who or where. I just figured that if i came out against the war, any war, i wouldn't have much of a shot for freshman council, and so i just thought about what i found to be more important.

i didn't want us to respond to this tragedy with creating more tragedies. and some of the bombings I was ok with, but I was worried about another Kosovo where too many bombs miss the mark and a lot of collateral damage would outweigh the benefit to me.

but this is all my opinion, just the way i felt.

not that i would have changed the world one way or another.

um, we are in west texas, and you thought being AGAINST a war would help you win?

I was asleep. My first class on Tuesday/Thursday wasn't until 11, so I was sleeping in. I woke up around 10, checked my email, and had one from a friend talking about the attacks. I looked it up on the news online, but it really didn't hit me that hard. I spent the rest of the day being pissed off at the people who were walking around like zombies in a surreal mindset or being glued to the TV. All I can think is that I was so desensitized to the news growing up that this didn't strike me as being a huge deal. I blame having grown up in Waco.

no, waco wouldn't do that. i have family in waco and they're normal.

[Spectatrix]

no, waco wouldn't do that. i have family in waco and they're normal.

My reason for saying that is that I was 8 years old when the Branch Davidian thing went down, then 10 when the Oklahoma City Bombing happened. After being bombarded by news of those two events, I think I just went numb.

I'm really not cold and heartless, but I didn't feel so much as a twitch when 9/11 happened. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that I've never been to NY, don't have any family up there, don't have much family in the military (except my dad and grandpa in the Coast Guard, but does that really even count?), so I just don't have any emotional connection to the thing. Yeah, it sucks and it was a tragedy, but eh...

Maybe I've changed, though. A more recent tragedy, the Virginia Tech shootings, really shook me up. For a couple of weeks I couldn't bear to listen to my coworkers talking about it or read much of the news.