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Originally posted by dtb
OK, I'll fess up. It was I who sent that pm to Ty. I don't need any visual reminder of that day, trust me. Barely a day goes by that I don't think about the horror of that day and the dread and fear I felt. I need to be able to block it out to get on with my day-to-day life; if I didn't, I don't think I could leave my house. I'm not kidding. I can feel the pit in my stomach like it was yesterday when I look out my office window and see the gaping hole in the downtown skyline from the absence of the towers (where I once worked). I don't need continuing visual evidence of the unspeakable suffering those people went through to keep it in my memory; much in the same way I didn't need to see the video of that poor kid's beheading.
To each his (or in my case, her) own, I guess, but I think it's disrespectful to the memory of the person depicted in that photo. But, by all means, use it as your soapbox.
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I don't feel it is disrespectful, just like I don't think it is disrepectful to show pictures of Pearl Harbor being bombed. Just the opposite.
I am sure it is much more difficult for those of you who live in NYC. Just like if you post a picture of the Bay Bridge after the 1989 earthquake that would be much harder to view if your family member was killed in the earthquake. It would also unnerve me as I sit here between the San Andreas and the Hayward.
Maybe we should stop discussing 9/11 and earthquakes.
