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Great Post!!!!!!!
I remember that day, as I thought someone had left an action movie on the player and it was replaying. I remember wanting so bad to have my mommie that day. When I finally reached them the Sat. after, I found out they were running for their lives away from the White House, where they were being given a tour. I have a hard time with forgiveness to whomever was involved, but am getting tired of the administration rehashing it, and pulling it into their every agenda.
It was a horrific event in history, and this year it hit me very hard. It disgusted me that they had turned the flight that flew over my parents heads into a commercial movie, and turning on the TV to see an instant replay and seeing a closer look than I remembered through the shock of the original.
As a nation we need to heal from this, hopefully someday we will. Don't feel bad, I don't see myself becoming that enlightened in this lifetime either. Great Post, straight from the heart, which is something you don't get from the administration or media these days.
posted by
LifeByLisa
on September 14, 2005 at 10:19 AM
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rgylford
One thing lacking from my emotional responses in the aftermath of the tragedy is the complete shock that so many felt. Not a "why did this happen" kind of shock. I certainly experienced that. I mean the "why us" type. It took a while to get a handle on it, but when I did, I wasn't surprised. I wasn't completely taken aback from the attack because being black, theoretically, I know how it feels to be hated and despised because I exist. I know how it feels to have such venom spewed my way. A turban or a white sheet, it's the same thing underneath.
posted by
Talion
on September 13, 2005 at 12:56 PM
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rgylford...KUDOS!
Every year we revisit 9/11. Every year someone else is to blame. Every year we shed a tear for the senselessness of it all and for the after affects people are still feeling - as this is human nature. It's always on our surface. But to cope and to understand and to move forward is progress. We must move forward. We must learn from that which we can not change but are capable of avoiding or warding off in the future.
posted by
Masky
on September 13, 2005 at 12:50 PM
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