Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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In regards to 9/11, having been present to watch the towers collapse here in NYC, it's about SENSITIVITY. As for the boobs, I cannot even begin with that topic just look at my sig and you'll see how I feel about that.
I lost a number of friends, collegues, fellow New Yorkers. ALL 8 million New Yorkers were traumatized in some fashion, add to that the roughly other 8 million that commute into the city some who watched from Ferry boats, trains, busses, and cars as the Towers burned and collapsed.
My wife's mother happened to be across the street from the towers that day. She has flashbacks when she HEARS a plane fly over head. Not ALL planes, but when the engine hits a certain pitch she freaks out.
The vietnam stuff, the WWII stuff, it took many years for people to finally come around. And even now, for some of those survivors there is still some issues. Just happens to be there are less of them alive right now.
For me, I need to see the images, that's how I'm dealing with it for myself.
Here's an excerpt from my journal.
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I still don't understand how it impacted me. I was working in Times Square at the time and the wife was in SoHo. We had some contact in the early hours of the morning, but mainly I had to keep it together because I had 15 direct reports all falling apart as they were coming into the city. There were also 20+ people in the call center where my desk was that were flipping out. I had to be strong and show leadership.
My appetite for watching, reading, seeing, 9/11 related things is insatiable. I've been to galleries of photographers that had pictures that were not shown on TV. All the people who look at the war on terror and think that it's pointless and a waste of time wouldn't feel that way if they say the picture of the severed bound hands. Photos of pools of liquid flesh of the people who jumped to their deaths instead of being burned or crushed alive.
I wonder if what I feel is similar to those that lived near Pearl Harbor and what they witnessed on December 7, 1941.
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