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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

First let me say that I fully understand that people deal with this tremendous loss very differently. I get that people feel the need to make sure this day is remembered and that we must face it every year, read the names of the victims, honor the heroes who gave their lives helping others, and basically make sure that that moment and all those people are not forgotten and remain in our thoughts.

But I hate it. I can't stand it. I do not want to be exposed to wall-to-wall coverage of one of the worst days in our country's history. I remember it. I will never forget it. I will never forget the lives that were lost for absolutely no good reason. When I turn on any coverage and watch some of the people covering it with their forced stern faces, it makes me sick. When I feel like I can pick certain people out who are wallowing in it because they want some strange type of credibility for being the most caring or the most connected to the event, it makes me angry. When Giuliani (who lives his life based on taking advantage of this event) is held up and paraded around as some kind of hero who represents everyone in the city and is deemed the country's mayor, I see red. Everyone in this city (hell, everyone in this country) can immediately conjure up terrible images from that day and we often do, especially around this time. To blanket everything with those images really annoys me.

I went back and read a lot of those posts, Not Bob. What struck me was the caring that flowed from the people on this board. The grief and shock surely flows through each of the posts, but what really comes through, for me, is how much people cared about each other at that point. I think the coverage we're subjected to every year (including the posting of photos of the towers all over facebook and the like) is so focused on striking the right tone, not offending, holding cops and firemen above everyone, reading names, that this basic feeling--how we're all really the same and connected, and need to take care of each other--is completely lost.

Thanks for the link. It hurt to read through the posts from that day, but, in a strange way, it also felt a little comforting.

TM

Well said.