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Originally posted by cash78mere
I have to disagree.
I live 20 or so miles from NYC and an living and literally breathing this tragedy. We smelled and saw smoke for days after the disaster. There are 5 people missing from my small town alone and 40 missing parents from the school district I worked in last year. We are seeing, hearing and living this every minute of every day.
Honestly, I believe that most of us who are directly affected by this tragedy want to be kept updated. I don't care if my favorite shows aren't on right now. I know PEOPLE who are missing and probably dead. I know fathers, mothers and children who I will probably never see again. They are more important than anything.
This tragedy affected everything. It cannot be compared to Princess Diana's death or any other news story.
I want to hear and see everything I can until the last body is found. My life will go on, and it has been, but it won't recover for a long time.
People who aren't here just can't understand.
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I completely agree with you and also Valkyrie. I don't care that all my fave TV shows, even baseball games till today, were cancelled - hell, i'm GLAD That they were. To have shows, and any form of entertainment going on while this tragedy is still taking place in the form of 5,000-still-missing-persons is just not right. I felt awkward when I tuned into The Simpsons at 11:00 last night. I just didn't feel in the mood to laugh or anything. I've loved the game of baseball ever since I can remember, and yet, baseball is NOTHING, absolutely nothing, compared to these WTC/Pentagon tragedies. This terrorist attack has really made me reevaluate what is truly important.
Cash78mere, and others who are directly affected, my heart and prayers go out to you. I know friends' loved ones who were in the WTC and also on Flight 93 - the one heading to San Francisco, which crashed into PA (thank God for those heroic passengers, who thwarted the hijackers' efforts, otherwise there would have been even MORE tragedy at the Capitol/White house/Camp David, etc.). Words can't even express how crushed I feel, and how my friends must feel...probably 100 times crushed. Everything's different when you actually know ppl who have died so suddenly and tragically.
I feel numb right now and am glad that the networks had enough respect for those who were tragically lost to postpone trivial TV shows. This has been the biggest event so far in my life and will probably be the most defining news event in my life. Hell, I'm even saving all the newspapers about the event just to be able to show my kids one day...to show them the magnitude of this event...how it affected so many...
THANK GOD for the NYPD and the FDNY....God bless them all, and others who helped in the effort.