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Originally posted by RACooper
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?
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If you didn't attend any 9-11 funerals, or work or live south of Canal Street in Manhattan, then the only way that you were affected was by choice, and very, very minimal.
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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?
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You experienced what I did in 1993. I was scared and worried until I contacted my mom and sister, then it was just me watching CNN a thousand miles away. Being there, and living there is so far beyond that, but you just can't grasp that.
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Guess what people other than you have emotional attachments to the events of 9/11 so get off your high horse...
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Get off of yours. You are manufacturing your attachment to 9-11, and if you can't get past that, then you need to get help from a mental health professional. You projected your emotions to an event that had nothing to do with Canada, but you have to feel just as important as those who were there, and that is very, very sad.
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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...
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If you were really sorry, you wouldn't trivialize those who really suffered. You didn't really suffer, and if you were bothered by what you saw on CNN, you had the luxury to turn it off. I know what the numbers were, and most of the people who died were Americans. More than 20% of those who died at the WTC were rescue workers.
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WTC was an international trading centre that handled business from all over the world, and housed international corporations...
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Actually, it wasn't, again proving that you know almost nothing about what happened down there. Most financial firms in New York were in Midtown, and those that were downtown were mostly in, or near Wall and Broad Streets. It was a symbolic attack based on the name, not the function of the WTC.
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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.....
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You absolutely don't get it. Showing your ID to get into work is par for the course with many companies, and is not the same thing as what many of us lived through. I had to show my drivers license to cross the street to go to the super market. I had to show my ID to cross the street to get back to my home. I had to walk more than an extra mile to get to my Mom because so much of Lower Manhattan was off limits. No one was allowed to drive in without clearance, and there were US Army everywhere. There was a mobile Secret Service command center parked down the block from me for months. All this happened while every street lamp was plastered with missing signs for loved ones.
I never had the luxury of turning CNN off. You did, and Canada did.