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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
You have absolutely no idea what 9-11 was to those who actually lived through it. It wasn't a week of watching it on TV and making phone calls. No one in Canada really lived through it, but because you have to feel relevant, you had to connect to it. That's fine, but no one in Canada lived through 9-11. Anyone, and everyone in Canada who was disturbed by media images had the luxury of turning the TV or radio off.
No one in Canada had their home shake from an impact that registered on seismographs. No one in Canada had to breath toxic air for months. No one in Canada had to show photo ID to get to their home for months because they were living under de facto martial law.
Anything that Canada did was by choice. Canada did not live through 9-11, and Canada was not targeted on 9-11.
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So by your specific definition of what 9/11 was only New Yorkers in the specific area of the attack were the ones who suffered through it huh?
So I didn't feel shit when I was trying to contact my father or uncle who were supposed to be at the WTC? Guess I didn't feel shit trying to find-out about brothers from the chapter visiting the girlfriends in NYC either huh? Guess what people other than you have emotional attachments to the events of 9/11 so get off your high horse...
Oh and in case you care here is a link to my uncle's site:
http://www.september11victims.com/se...nfo.asp?ID=488
or
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/mem...ople/4045.html
I'll make sure to mention that you have suffered more than Erica or Maureen too.
Well I'm sorry that you suffered personally but that does not dimish the impact the event had on others in the US as well as the world... look at the numbers of dead in the attack and their nationalities and guess what you find a sizable portion are not US citizens... WTC was an international trading centre that handled business from all over the world, and housed international corporations...
All that aside many Canadians have family and friends in the US, and some lost friends and family, others felt the extreme empathy for the loss the Americans suffered. As for the photo ID thing, guess what I had to show ID every day when I went to work next door the the US consulate and bypass the security barriers that closed off the area around the consulate.....