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But, see that's my point. You're right that nobody has a monopoly, but as you said, what you saw (even if it was on tv) traumatized you. And, as a result, you didn't watch tv all day. My sense is that the people who were really traumatized, people who really processed the reality of what had happened, were not interested, at all, in the silly sentimentality.
The people who were not traumatized -- not to deny that they weren't affected or scared -- seem to me to be the ones who were writing things like this:
In times of rememberance, of ceaseless transformation, of moving ahead and giving thanks for life and those we love...
We salute the courage and resiliance of this beautifully diverse city.
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timshell
on September 12, 2002 at 3:54 AM
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I agree that some things have been taken too far, which is why I stayed away from my TV most of the day and instead went to a ballgame.
But I do think no one has a monopoly on whether it impacted them or not. Sure, some people were affected more directly than others: People who lost family and close friends, people who were in NYC at the time.
And for those of us watching this unfold on TV it was sometimes hard to make it seem real. And understanbly so when we're so used to films like Independence Day. However, all of us saw the pictures and footage of people trapped inside against the windows, or people choosing to die by throwing themselves out [via Joanne Jacobs]. Images of that still make me nauseous and serve to make 9/11 very, very real. Even 3,000 miles away.
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Mihail
on September 11, 2002 at 9:13 PM
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Thank God this "holiday" is over. I'm so sick and tired of all this silly sentimentality. My friends who were truly impacted by 9/11 can't wait for it to be over and as some who was marginally impacted, I think all this shit is just a way for everybody else to try and stand in the spotlight.
For example, one colleague/friend actually thought, for one brief moment, that she was going to die. We worked ten blocks away, but at the time, everybody who was in the building -- I was on my way to work -- thought that the WTC buildings would fall over to the side rather than straight down. Another friend lived on the 43rd floor of a nearby building and saw people jumping out of the buildings. These people were traumatized by their experiences and the last couple of weeks have just rubbed salt in their wounds!
And these weren't people who lost close friends or family, so I can't even begin to imagine how those people have been dealing with the last few weeks. 
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timshell
on September 11, 2002 at 5:27 PM
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