Posted by SLS on September 13, 2011, at 5:48:56
In reply to Scott, posted by 10derheart on September 13, 2011, at 3:57:38
> I apologize.
>
> Please forgive me.I might if I knew what you were apologizing for.
I have been on this site long enough to moderate my reactivity to those behaviors that do not resonate well with my gestalt. I was not particularly offended by the posts here that interjected opinions of a political or military nature. I recognize that this is a demonstration of the differences in how people can react to the same event. I was not offended, but I was disappointed that this thread might morph into heated exchanges of differing opinions regarding the politics and logistics surrounded a nation's response to being attacked.
I still don't understand the depth of my emotional upset when I think of September 11, 2001. It was surely a day of the surreal. I lost no one in my life. You know, just having written that caused me to realize that I did indeed lose people in my life. I lost thousands of innocent brothers and sisters to a profane act of death and destruction. We in the U.S. finally experienced the sense of vulnerability to terrorism that the rest of the world had suffered for decades. How could this happen here in the US? We were supposedly forever safe under the protection of the world's greatest military. Things have forever changed.
I still cry at the drop of a hat when I think of that day. There seems to be an infinite reservoir of tears inside me that remains hidden from me until they are provoked. I never know when this will happen. At first, I pronounce to myself that these feelings are mine alone, as if they were somehow unique. However, it soon becomes obvious to me that I am not unique in my intense reaction to the bombings. I commiserate with millions of others. Innocence lost.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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