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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
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
KS 361
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I'm sorry, but I think this is bullshit.
Yes, 9/11 was an attack on all-Americans.
However, if you didn't lose someone you loved in the attacks you DID NOT experience it the same way as someone who did. Ditto for someone who lost an acquaintance versus someone who lost a spouse of 25 years -- there are degrees of loss.
Your little ode to how you walked the halls of the Pentagon and thus that affected you only reinforces that point. Obviously New Yorkers were deeply affected by this because this was their HOME. Almost everyone I know in New York knew someone who died. There is a huge difference between seeing a part of the city you call your home being torn to pieces, having lived through that day in New York city, having to look at the altered skyline everyday, and going to funerals day after day vs. watching the news of a national tragedy on TV.
Imagine if this was your home, your friends that died, and the rest of the country trying to pretend that they were just as deeply affected by it as you were. (On an ideological level, sure. On an emotional level, no way in hell.) You'd be pissed off too.
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