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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Also, despite the fact that "9/11 belongs to all Americans," you certainly experienced it a little differently if you were waiting by the phone for hours to see if your dad died in the attacks than if you sat vegging on the couch for days watching footage of the towers falling and candlelight vigils. Please don't try to argue differently because you just sound ignorant.
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It does belong to ALL of us.
My dad's family is from Long Island. I have an Aunt that works a stone's throw from the WTC. I was certainly worried for her. BOTH of my parents at the time were Active Duty military officers stationed in a city with one of the largest military populations in the country, San Antonio. My dad's previous duty station was in fact, the Pentagon. Some of the military personal killed were MSC officers that worked the same office my father did. Its pretty damn traumatic to turn on the TV and see a building who's hallways you walked in a bunch to go see your dad at work blown apart. In the midst of my biggest adversarily feelings towards my father ever, i still almost cried when i called him on the phone to make sure he was ok. Because after that happened, military personnel all over the country were on High Alert.
A lot of us that don't live there, or are not from NYC have connections to people that were in the attacks or that were nearby the attacks. The terrorists were not targeting your father specifically, but Americans in general. Therefore, this was an attack on ALL Americans, not just those in NY. I don't think Osama was sittin in his cave, after his latest amorous romp with a dromedary, thinking, "i'm really pissed off at those New Yorkers, their city is dirty and their smug self-satisfaction at being from the Big Apple. I'm gonna attack them."
I think it sounds ignorant to try to tell Americans as a whole that 9-11 doesn't belong to them, just to the 3,000 or so who lost their lives and their families.
Kitso
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