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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Just seeing this on TV for most has fucked us up more than we realiz. | ||||
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| fuh-q-2 | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 8:02 PM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00  | I live in north Jersey and was driving home around 2:30 pm and came over a hill near my condo and saw a cloud of black smoke coming from the direction of my complex. My heart sank just because I had seen this same smoke on TV for days. I got home and stillsaw the smoke from a distance. I still had no clue what it was because the news out here is pre-occupied. Ilater found out there was a fire at a ski resort a mile away but know nothing else about it. But it makes me think about how affected people really are gonna be even if they were not in NYC. Thank you for letting me vent this. God bless the rescue workers for doing everything they have done and are still doing.  | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 8:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Unfortunately I've seen too much to be able to really agree with you. I was in New York on Tuesday. I wasn't really near the WTC, but I was 3 blocks from the Empire State Building. I work there every Tuesday. All other days of the week, I work in Lakewood, NJ. Down the Parkway for those who may not know... down the shore. The people in the Lakewood office.... I don't know. It's like they just don't care. At least, not like someone who was either close or there. Not like someone who sees the skyline all the time, and saw it with a cloud of smoke where the towers used to be. I even heard a story that someone from the Lakewood office called the New York office on TUESDAY AFTERNOON asking where someone was. When they were told that person went home, they replied, "Oh, I don't believe it... come on... life goes on." I'm in MIS. I plan to find out who that person is, and fuck with their internet or domain accounts. That was just NOT FUCKING RIGHT. They might as well have been flying the planes. That one person was just completely fucking heartless - I'm not saying everyone else is THAT bad, but they just don't FEEL it like I do.... at least I don't get the impression that they do. It's all I think about, all day. Walking out of the building, looking down 5th, and seeing nothing but smoke.... taking the train back home, coming out of the tunnel, and seeing the skyline completely gone, with smoke in its place.... New York was our city. Every goddamn person around it... it was OUR city. They fucking took it away... it'll never be the same. Shit like that sticks with you forever. | ||||
| fuh-q-2 | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 8:43 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | FTL....I was afraid this would be taken the wrong way. I am not by any means comparing it to what is being seen by the people there and the people helping. But people like me that can only watch from a distance and do nothing about it for what ever reason. I apologize if i insulted anyone that is there and have seen more than I. In no way as this intended to insult or offend anyone in any way shape or form. This message was edited by fuh-q-2 on 9-13-01 @ 8:52 PM | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 9:20 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Nah, obviously *I* was taken the wrong way. I count you among the people who are close enough to actually care. I'm just saying that the further you get from NYC, the less people care and the more they want to move on with their lives, and right now, only two days later, it just fucking makes me sick. Sick to know that you only have to go 75 miles outside the city to find assholes who just couldn't give a fuck and it's business as usual. And it's even sadder to think that if you go further, there are probably even more. | ||||
| djgrrrl | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 9:26 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | My fiance and I were driving home from work together and saw a commercial plane in the sky that we thought was flying kind of low and I just got this really sick feeling in my stomach. The stuff I saw on the news just played over and over again in my head. http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/ea29fad2/bc/Yahoo!+Photo+Album/O%26A+Cat2---1.jpg | ||||
| Psycho Bitch | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 9:32 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jul. 01 | Think about this though. Remember when the Oklahoma City bombing took place? The entire country mourned the loss of the innocent people that died but since we were so far away from the scene most of us went on with business as usual. It didn't mean we cared any less, we were just not as directly connected as we are with this tragedy. This happened in our backyards, most of us knew at least one person that worked in or travelled through the WTC on a daily basis. Just because people don't relate to this as deeply as we do doesn't mean they don't care. And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 10:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | PB, I know they don't necessarily NOT care, but having seen the result with my own eyes, not just on TV, it AMAZES me that there are people who do not feel as strongly about it as I do. It's really hard to explain... NOTHING has EVER affected me like this.... not even the deaths of loved ones... and it's just astounding that there are people who are enough of a fucking asshole prick that they can call the same goddamn afternoon and tell someone who is THERE that life goes on and to get over it. | ||||
| Psycho Bitch | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 10:47 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jul. 01 | quote: That's exactly the point. These people have not seen first hand what we have. You really cannot expect them to fully grasp the reality of it all. To them this is something that has happened to someone else. It's crazy to think that as an American this doesn't affect everyone so deeply as it does us but we need to be understanding of those who have not seen the disaster with their own eyes. Remember, to a lot of people this is just something on TV. And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 11:32 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Oh, don't get me wrong, I know WHY they don't feel the same way.... it just pisses me off - but that's just the way it is. | ||||
| Nana's Precious | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 11:46 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | none of us will ever look at things the same way again....as for your experience in Lakewood FTL, that is my neck of the woods and I can assure you that what you experienced is the minority....most of us at the shore either work, having a family member or loved one that works in the city...believe me we care and cry and mourn with you....  "what, I thought we were all just having fun..." guardian of f_tarded | ||||
| fuh-q-2 | posted on 09-13-2001 @ 11:47 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | Anyone that has seen these towers in person knows the magnitude of this tragedy. The problem is that on TV the towers are only inches tall. I for one have visited these towers a dozen or more times while in college in Newark and after trying to take anyone i knew that came here to visit. I made sure to take these family and freinds that have visited from other parts of this country to see these towers. To see a building that i have been in so many times and walked by hundreds of times collapse before live on TV was crushing. I cannot imagine what it is like fo those of you that are there helping. The point is that people that seem to not care do not realize the magnitude of this the way those of us from this area do. God bless the victims of this tragic loss. | ||||
Nay. We are but men. ROCK. The man with the plan. | posted on 09-14-2001 @ 12:11 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Just thinking about it more, maybe a fact that I've tried NOT to think about for fear of making myself any more upset, is the fact that my New York office is THREE BLOCKS from the Empire State Building. It's between 33rd and 34th, I work between 30th and 31st. Three... VERY SMALL... fucking... blocks. Anyone who knows that area knows exactly how close that is. I literally work in the shadow of it. So of course... the thought running through my head Tuesday, that I was trying to block as much as I still do, was, "what if they attack THAT too?" Any time that Don and Mike cut to commercial with a moment of silence, it didn't even cross my mind that it was a tribute. The only thing that crossed my mind was... the silence. CBS was the only TV station broadcasting, I can only assume the same for radio, I didn't check.... they stayed on because they broadcast from Empire. So at any moment of silence, I *RAN* across the floor to the 5th Ave side and looked up at Empire.... because the only thing going through my head was that they're off the air... shit, they must have hit Empire. Sure, now that I think of it, it would have been static, not silence. Just a stupid matter of logistics at this point. You don't think rationally when you think there's a chance you're not going home ever again. | ||||
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