Posted by larryhoover on September 11, 2011, at 20:46:18
In reply to Remembering., posted by SLS on September 10, 2011, at 6:34:22
Thank you Scott, for telling your intimate story of that day. And thank you for the work you did to put together your web page. And thank you for starting this thread.
I suffer from PTSD, and I came very close to the edge of sanity that morning. All I could think about was the children, whose mothers and fathers had gone off to work that morning as usual, but nothing would ever be the same for them again.
I don't think I would have been able to process 9/11 before this year. I have been experiencing a great catharsis. I can finally feel what I have long suppressed. And that is not only shock and incredulity, but more powerful yet is my outrage! That anyone could even imagine such a plan, let alone spend great time and effort to carry it out. And in all that time, sober second thought did not occur.
I am not wise enough to know what might be the correct response to these terrorist attacks, but I don't think that chasing those cowards (e.g. Bin Laden) to the ends of the Earth, or to the ends of their lives, whichever comes first, is an unreasonable response.
Lar
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