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Originally Posted by xo_kathy
Right, but as I mentioned, I was in Manhattan that morning, too. I can talk about it fine and am looking forward to the seeing the film.
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Same here. What a lot of people don't think about is that some people, like myself, my mother, and my sister, all lived so close to the World Trade Center, that we were living in the Frozen Zone for several weeks. We had no hot water for almost a week and no phone service for a few weeks, but no one dared to complain because that was just an inconvenience. We were alive. It was sort of like living under martial law because no one was allowed in without ID proving that you lived there. Also, that huge cloud of debris that you see at the end of this trailer contained a lot of nasty stuff that might have health repurcusions for us, and tens of thousands of others, in the future. I remember as I evacuated the area on Sixth Avenue at the Holland Tunnel, I heard a rumble. I turned around and saw the second tower come down. I saw a huge amount of stuff get projected into the air. I would turn back to look as I was walking back uptown. Within a minute or so, there was so much debris in the sky that it was visually possible for the Twin Towers to be standing, but completely obstructed from view by this enourmous cloud. Of course, they were gone. The cloud shown in the trailer doesn't seem as massive, but that's only because the perspective is very different.
I appreciate that this movie is coming out because its imperative that we never, ever forget what happened on that day. I really don't care that several billion dollars worth of property was destroyed. Its the lives that were lost that's important.
It might be painful for some people to watch this movie, but they need to get past that. Immediate family members, of the innocent people who were killed, went through hundreds of hours of hearings and committee meetings to try to bring some kind of closure for everyone. It should not be that big of a deal to spend two hours watching a movie in an air conditioned theater to help keep the memory alive.
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