9-11

[zvanut]

anyone watching it?

CBS

its some scary stuff

[beam]

unbelievable.

[Clare]

watching it too.. i can't even imagine what it was like to be there

[Mango]

words just cant describe it.....these men are truely heros.

[Restola]

yeah possibly the single most important historical event that will happen during my life.

[MagMan5446]

Originally posted by Restola
yeah possibly the single most important historical event that will happen during my life.

Don't assume.

[Predater]

i agree. dont assume. but pray that it is.

[Thordic]

I just need to say I think this whole "special" is total BS.

It really angers me. I live right outside NYC, I know people who died, and I think this is a load of crap. People who live here don't need to be reminded of what happened. We deal with it every day when we look at the skyline and see a big hole.

Do people who live in other areas of the country really need to be reminded every 6 months of what happened so it isn't forgotten? Have we gotten that bad?

You can sit there and argue "these people were heroes and should be honored" all you want, but from what I hear, this is just over the top. Honoring them is telling stories about thier lives, not showing videos of it as it happened. I find it tasteless. It really angers me. A lot of people who live around me share the same opinion, I asked around during the past week.

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

yup, just got done watching it, made me go back and think of what i was doing that day, i dont understand how the building colapsed and all those firefightters were walking around in the loby

[Predater]

Thoradic

you live this tragedy. i havent forgot but it doesnt slap me in the face evry day like it does you. when you live there i can see how you feel the way you do. but for us out side of new york, sadly enough, we need to be reminded that it happened. i didnt see it as "heros, and being honored" i saw it as a reminder to those of us that dont live there that we need to remimber this really happened. its sad to say but if you dont live there than you have the tendancy to forget. well not forget but not remember what really happened. pleas respond in a friendly mannor because i am just saying how it seams people in southern IL have acted over the months.

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

thordic, i totally agree. i think the news and media are more worried about thier ____ ratings more than anything else. what do they know about honoring anything? honor those that died saving lives by showing the ones that survived? i dont' think so. don't get me wrong. people that survived this shouldn't be just forgotten. it could have easily have been them. but really, the ones that really gave up everything they could just seemed to disapear. i saw it and couldn't watch it. it really disgusts me what they put on tv. i'm fortunate enough that i don't know anyone that died. i couldn't even begin to imagine what it must feel like for people that did. i also have yet to go to the city since that day. i don't know how it will seem without them there.

[omni]

I just didn't like the fact that it was " oh the poor Fire Fighters, so on so on" What about all the Countless people who died besides the Fire Men, who seemed to get little or no metion in the CBS Special.

Yes the Fire Fighters did lose many of there Co-Workers, but alot of Familys lost there loved ones too.

[ThePatriot]

Why is it the only people who give a crap about it are the ones that live around NYC. Thordic i totally agree with you, this happened 1 month after i moved away from right around NYC, why do they do these specials? Who the hell wants to be reminded of what happened? Ohhh theres a huge tradgedy, LETS WATCH IT ALL OVER AGAIN!! The people not from around NYC, have no idea what so ever what it did, or what it meant, to them it was just 2 towers being hit by planes, us being attacked. They have no idea what so ever about what really happened, no one wants to be reminded....that could have easily been one of us, if they bombed....could have been every person i ever knew from the town i grew up in. This is some serious stuff guys, to you its nothing.

FYI guys...i knew people who lost aunts and uncles, to people who lost both their parents in those towers...

[Chris]

I watched the special, and I can say that it was very moving. I think, more than anything, it put the events in a new perspective for me. What bothers me though, is how everyone suddenly picks up this false sense of nationalism as soon as something big happens. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon and brings out the stars and stripes. I am not saying that this is bad, but where was this nationalism a year ago? The only reason I can think of for it is that people finally realized what they really have in this country. I can only hope that the feeling lasts for them...but I really do belive that it will all fade away like so many other fads.

-Chris

[Army]

Look at it from my perspective. This was not a train wreck, or tornado, to relive those in a "movie of the week" would indeed be boring, repititious, silly, and usually not the way it happened.

This was more than your normal "bad guy tosses a grenade into a German disco and kills/hurts any number of people, some of whom happen to be American" tragedy. This was a direct, deliberate attack on the citizens of the USA, which also killed scores of foriegn nationals.

This is the same action that has started wars from times beginning. We do indeed need to be reminded of this war provoking act, in order to keep those deaths in mind as we go forth to stop those who will not declare war against us, but murder people for whatever bent and twisted reasons they may believe in.

Their actions have no purpose other than to kill as many Americans as possible, as long as there IS an America.

To forget the horror of 9-11 is to deny it happened. To deny it happened is to return to our complacent lifestyle until they murder more Americans and we cry, "How could this happen to us?"

Never again, never forget, and never quit fighting until evil is destroyed.