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August 10, 2003
9.11
On Friday I took out Giuliani's Leadership from the library. Reading about his experiences on and in the aftermath of September 11 got me thinking. I had tears in my eyes reading about families that suffered unimaginable losses. It got me thinking about the thousands of people out there now coping without their loved ones and about the hundreds of babies without fathers. And now I am wondering if there is anything I can do to make their lives easier. Is there anything I can do so that I shouldn't feel that I didn't do anything after that dreadful day?
It is saddening to see how we, Americans, have moved on. Of-course we had to move on. Of-course we couldn't let terrorism dictate how we should live our lives. But shouldn't it have affected our lives a little more? Isn't there something wrong with us that now, not even two years later, we are back to the way we were two years ago? I remember thinking in the days after 9/11 that there was the world before 9/11 and now there is the world after 9/11. I remember thinking that the world will never be the same as it was on that beautiful morning. Now I no longer see the difference. Yes we went after terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, but nothing really changed.
Do you remember all the heartbreaking stories you heard and read in the weeks and months after that day? Do you remember how the stories and the miracles were all you thought about for weeks? How often do you think of that day now? How often do you think of the lives lost? Not the numbers, the numbers just make it a cold statistic, the lives, the people. How often do you think of the miracles that happened that day?
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Q!SAT
DATE: 08/10/2003 02:09:18 AM
I don't think I could forget that one.....
Being in mortal terror the whole time, not knowing if my father made it out of Manhattan or not, and having to protect my little students and shield them from the knowledge of what was going on in the world around them. Not to mention...it was only the 2nd day of school.
This year, I had 4 students whose fathers either worked in the World Trade Center and escaped/didn't go to work that day, or whose fathers were in Hatzolah and survived, while helping others to survive as well. Chasdei Hashem....
True, we don't mention it as much today, and it's become somewhat routine and accepted, but those who have personal relevance to it will never forget it and will make sure their children and grandchildren won't either. Teachers will transmit the information to their students. It will be a chain, to remember what was lost, and maintain what we've won.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Humbert
DATE: 08/10/2003 03:33:03 PM
9.11 really was a tragedy. They say Rudolph's book was a best seller. So, it's probably very well written. Written like he believes in God. Believes in God, meaning he is religious in his heart.
But to think of all the tragedies that have happened since the beginning of time - one can go insane: creation, extinction of the dinosaurs, creation of Eve, brrr... sends shivers down my spine.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: toohock
DATE: 08/11/2003 06:31:42 PM
9-11-01 a date and day to remember. Terrorists terrorizing Americans. Blame game going on. Lost of lives, lost of buildings, lost of security in the "land of the free" forget it. We are so not secured anymore. It is as if they took our freedom, our security away from us after all these years.
The uprising of antisemitism. The KKK still alive, new secrets coming out.
Watch out usa
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Joao Santos
DATE: 01/20/2004 04:32:12 PM
September 11, is something we will never for get for the rest of our lives. It will live on with us for ever, all the horor that accured and inocent lives lost in the world trade center. That was something that america was not ready for, it happened so fast that we could not have done any thing at that moment. I would like to war to be done and over with so every one can just go back to their normal lives, and stop having to worry about people dying everyday from our army troops.
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Posted by notepad at August 10, 2003 1:30 AM
Comments
Not a day goes by that I don't think about
Sept. 11. People seem to have forgotten about it very quickly, and part of the reason is the reluctance of the media to show the images from that day. Keep showing the jets flying into the Twin towers; show the victims jumping out of desperation; remind Americans that we were attacked. WW2 veterans still weep 50 years after the fact when talking about Pearl Harbor, yet there's not that reaction over 9/11. I can't understand it.
Posted by: Susan Schwartz at December 6, 2005 9:29 PM