(and if you're not in the states, I'll begin by telling you that if one wasn't careful, one will have heard about basically nothing else for the last month. It is frustrating me, because I don't necessarily want to be desensitized to ... any of it.)
The NSSPart That Gets You to the Point:
God, that was a horrific day, even for a Midwesterner. I cried much more than I would have expected, and you won't be surprised when I say that it was a day that seared everything into my mind. I remember where I was, who told me, what I watched, what class I went to, what I did later that day. How I felt.
The Point:
What I'm getting today is self-centered introspection. Redundant, you say? Eh, well, you'll see why in a second. More than anything, I remember who I was, and am able to compare her to who I am today. Can we say that about other days in our lives? I don't even remember my own graduation day with such clarity.
And maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like a less-than-acceptable topic upon which to brood today. Is it wrong to call it self-centered? At any rate, I guess I can't be blamed for what occurs to me w/o my permission.
What are you thinking today?
Yes, I can remember pretty much everything from that day, and I wasn't even in high school yet.
But, you know, I think your reaction is pretty normal. My own thoughts were mostly about how has changed since then. It would be interesting to compare the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with, say, the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attacks. I'm sure it received a lot of media coverage back in 1941, but how engrained was it in peoples' minds in 1951? By that time, the War was over, whereas the War today doesn't look like it will end anytime soon, which keeps 9/11 from fading away in people's minds. 9/11 has changed so much, it's astonishing almost to look back 10 years.
You know, with this whole 9/11 thing
- 11/09/2011 03:52:47 PM
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i'm thinking i wish we didn't have to have a 
ribbon for every thing these days
- 11/09/2011 05:35:25 PM
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ribbon for every thing these days
- 11/09/2011 05:35:25 PM
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I totally know what you mean
- 11/09/2011 06:18:27 PM
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Through the years, I've seen a few documentaries about it. I like that one best. *NM*
- 12/09/2011 02:43:40 AM
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Something similar
- 11/09/2011 10:57:02 PM
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what am I thinking today?
- 12/09/2011 12:25:49 AM
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*NM*
*NM*
How about proving that they really contracted it that way?
- 12/09/2011 02:23:13 PM
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The incidence of respiratory diseases there far, far exceeds the average.
- 13/09/2011 12:16:00 PM
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the federal govenrment should take over the healthcare coverage of NY city *NM*
- 12/09/2011 02:33:00 PM
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- 13/09/2011 02:29:00 AM
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- 13/09/2011 02:29:00 AM
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we need a sarcasm emoticon
- 13/09/2011 03:36:15 AM
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Try this one: 
- 13/09/2011 04:16:18 AM
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- 13/09/2011 04:16:18 AM
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I think this one is better ==> 
*NM*
- 13/09/2011 04:18:10 AM
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*NM*
- 13/09/2011 04:18:10 AM
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Not for pure sarcasm, especially since the sarcasm smiley has "sarcasm" in its tag.
- 13/09/2011 04:30:21 AM
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Yeah, but the other one does look more like it's suffering from motion sickness. *NM*
- 13/09/2011 05:17:13 AM
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looks like he is yawning the rest of what you said is to loony for comment *NM*
- 13/09/2011 03:21:45 PM
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The federal govt does step in in times of national disasters.
- 13/09/2011 12:11:58 PM
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so they will be picking up the health care cost for all the firefighters in the Texas wildfires?
- 13/09/2011 03:41:28 PM
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I'm not sure it's relevant whether they have health insurance or not.
- 14/09/2011 06:01:51 PM
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It's not just in the States; I was pretty tired of it well before the weekend.
- 13/09/2011 02:28:46 AM
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