Remember...

Mizuki · Post by **Mizuki** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:16 pm

You either want to remember 9/11 or you want to try and pretend nothing happened. But it's not going to go away. I watched a movie in my Sociology class about the survivors in the elevators, boy did I want to cry so bad. And boy did I feel like the only one about to cry, maybe I was just to sad to notice others, but everytime we fast forwarded through the commercials of the movie, people just started talking as if what we were watching wasn't effecting at all. But... whatever...

I kept seeing the images of the second plane just... yards away from the next tower and I just have the urge to whiteout the plane. I want to tear it out of the picture as a means of saying it didn't happen, or to somehow erase the tragedy.

I don't know what to think or feel besides sadness and depression whenever this day comes. Sometimes I wish superheros existed, and Superman or Spiderman had come from nowhere to stop the planes... of course those fairy tales don't exist...

Mother Earth embraced again the bodies of the victims, welcoming them back into her core... and the wind gave their souls flight...

RIP 9/11/01 victims and peace be wth their families.

....I don't know what else to say...

Post by **Soran Nightblade** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:41 pm

Well, you live in New Jersey, so I highly doubt that the class was as unaffected as they acted. In our area, there barely anyone who hasn't either worked in New York in 2001, known people who were killed, or know people who know people who were killed. No one here can say they were unaffected. However, people like to be in control of their own mourning process. In a classroom setting, many would feel being forced to watch a documentary on 9/11 in front of friends and not-friends is rather oppressive. I hate getting emotional in public, and I hate being told to be upset when I am dealing with my resentment/sorrow in more constructive ways or, god forbid, choosing not to focus on it at all. In front of a group of people I might not know that well, if I were forced to watch a depressing documentary when I wasn't in the mood to watch a depressing documentary, I would feel very rebellious. Like "let's pass notes instead" rebellious. And the more it disturbed/affected me, the harder I would try to act like nothing was wrong, as a way of stabilizing myself (i.e. talking during commercials). Maybe everyone in your class wasn't like that, but there's one example of reasoning for their actions that might be less worrying to you.

On that note, I was watching a live reenactment on CNN of the broadcasts from that day, and I was surprised how upsetting it was. The broadcast was at the point where they still thought part of the building might be left and didn't realize how complete the destruction was, and it was very, very sad.

Meagan · Post by **Meagan** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:47 pm

I live in Alabama, and I was still somewhat affected. They've been replaying the video of it all day today and they did yesterday, too. There's been so many tragedies all over the world. 9/11, Katrina, and the tsunami.... It's sad, and I'm thankful I didn't know anyone that died, but I do still pray and feel for those who did.

Mizuki · Post by **Mizuki** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:14 pm

I don't mean that I don't think people are affected by it, I just felt like a singled out person caught in something very confusing really. I was confused all day really, I felt like the school should be having a mourning day or something... but like, at the same time I knew that that wouldn't be the best thing for kids. Seeing the reenactments makes me feel as if I was transported to the scene then suddenly brought back to the present and seeing people laughing in the hallways sets me out of tone. I can get so ridiculously emotional that if I feel that people should also feel the same as me. It's hard to remember that people deal with pain in different ways.

Just like it's a controversy knowing whether or not Bush did the right thing.