9-11 and American Unity

[MOlivo]

As horrible as 9-11 was, the only thing that gave me hope out of it was how people treated each other afterwards. We all cried for the same reason that day, and everyone "felt" each others pain. I had family in washington DC and NYC that day (thank God not in those parts but scary none the less). The thing that affected me the most was watching the other people around me that day. I was at home when it happened, and rushed to my work to be with people while this horrible tragedy unfolded. People, who never been to New York or DC, didnt know anyone there, had no connection whatsoever, wept watching the film rolling in of the towers collapsing, knowing that many people that day died. That touched me immensely, and gave me a renewed hope in our society.


What are your thoughts?

[chicom]

Too bad many Americans have short memories and relate to it as something that happened " on TV".

[yugoshooter]

At first I cried, but after about a day or two I got mad. First at the terrorist. until I watched the videos and realized there was something funny how the buildings went down. Thats when I started to study it and came to the conclusion That something was fishy. Then the more I studied it the madder I got because I realized that they were lets say helped to fall, and also that our gov didn't do enough to stop it.

[ReverendGoo]

Back when that happened I was working in the media, so besides obvious reasons I was glued to what was going on. I know nothing I saw compares to what the people at "ground zero" saw but seeing the images coming across the wire that had yet to be filtered added tons to the emotion.

I know what you feel about hope and our society. I felt it as well. Like when our congress stood up and sung together. I never thought I would live to see that. I don't think I have ever felt as american as I did when Bush gave his speech on the rubble about how he hears us and the people who did this would soon (paraphrasing).

I think that is the problem though. We never got our revenge. Yeah I know we have gotten them back and all that but we never got Osama. Osama was the person we saw in the news, he was the one responsible for the attacks. Osama practically became a bad word like Adolf because of our hatred for him. I don't care about the number 2 guy. I don't care about a deck of cards. I don't care about warlords in Afghanistan. Osama was the target. It's always been him. We have no revenge without him in my opinion. Hell level the mountains he is supposedly hiding in for all care but get him.

Just my opinion but I think it plays a part as to why the spirit is not the same today.