Call me cynical or unfeeling but seeing the reports of people being rescued after deciding to NOT HEED official warnings to evacuate makes me wonder. Why call them victims when they chose to be where they are? The real victims as far as I can see are those that end of risking their lives by having to go in and find the "die hards" that choose to stay put. I think that if people are told that they should find shelter elsewhere should do so--or be charged a fee for their rescue. Not unlike having an ambulance take you to the hospital...
For the ones that chose to follow the warning and evacuate, help should be given to them FIRST, they are victims and should be helped. As far as the others, staying behind when forewarned? They should be aware that they choose and sometimes they lose.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
9-11 Seven Years Later
September 11, 2008
It has been 7 years since the city of New York and our country woke up from our delusion of safety from outside attacks. I think most everyone remembers where they were when they heard the unbelievable news.
It was just an ordinary day, much like today is...
I can only wonder how many Americans today are finding themselves watching the skies and thinking of their loved ones a bit more than usual. Has the passing of time erased the feelings of fear and unease that permeated each of us on 09/11/2001?
If not for the news reminding us with stories of the remembrances being held in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon-would this have been just another "ordinary" day? I myself believe that in reality there will never be days that can be labeled as ordinary for those that lost loved ones that day, for those that worked the rescues and clean up after the towers fell.
http://www.scribd. com/doc/282415/ Awesome-Military -photos-of- the-Twin- Towers
The United States of America is not the safety zone it once was for us. Our eyes were opened to that horrible fact.
I believe that the result of that day still resides in the back of our minds today. As we hold our loved ones a bit closer and say I love you more often than before. Which is a very good thing.
It has been 7 years since the city of New York and our country woke up from our delusion of safety from outside attacks. I think most everyone remembers where they were when they heard the unbelievable news.
It was just an ordinary day, much like today is...
I can only wonder how many Americans today are finding themselves watching the skies and thinking of their loved ones a bit more than usual. Has the passing of time erased the feelings of fear and unease that permeated each of us on 09/11/2001?
If not for the news reminding us with stories of the remembrances being held in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon-would this have been just another "ordinary" day? I myself believe that in reality there will never be days that can be labeled as ordinary for those that lost loved ones that day, for those that worked the rescues and clean up after the towers fell.
http://www.scribd. com/doc/282415/ Awesome-Military -photos-of- the-Twin- Towers
The United States of America is not the safety zone it once was for us. Our eyes were opened to that horrible fact.
I believe that the result of that day still resides in the back of our minds today. As we hold our loved ones a bit closer and say I love you more often than before. Which is a very good thing.
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