I know this may seeming coming out of nowhere, but i just wanted to see if anybody out here could identify with how I'm feeling, Just trying to see if I'm the not the only one that gets like this....


You know what i hate about september 11th, how they etched that date into my (our?) brains forever. Right now i was just pouring some milk in my coffee and the expiration date read "Sept 11th" and i nearly dropped my coffee mug. I just felt a pang of hurt and i felt stung. When the moment passed, I just though how that wasn't right, how before 2001 that date didn't mean anyhing to me and now it had such power to make me feel. And I'm not even sure why. I live in Los Angeles, i lost no relatives or anyone close to me there, it just has stayed with me, like something about my world  that felt "safe" was robbed from me and my family that day. It happens other times too, like when i see a movie on TV where the old New York skyline is with the towers, i just feel that
pain and scariness. A lot of thing i hear advice people " don't feel that way, it gives the terrorist power, thats what they want etc..." But I'm not so sure about that..how do you just "not feel" something?

I know that this board is largely about pop culture and i rather enjoy it, but I guess the reason i posted here is because it did happen "in the 00's"  and I guess I'm just searching to understand through others feelings and experiences about. And i would welcome anyone to respond and would be immensely grateful.

Thanks,
Maylene

I don't know exactly how old you are but from your photo (if that is you) I'd say you were still in your early teens.  If so it may just be that you feel emotional over 11th September because it was your first major 'disaster' that you seen reported.  And it was such a big thing that was talked about for a long time afterwards.  These images then get locked away in your brain and it can be hard to set them free.

All you can do is try and believe that lessons have been learnt and everything possible is being done to prevent this sort of thing happening again.

I suppose, as a Britisher, I don't know what sort of coverage the anniversary is getting in the States.  It may be that you just need to switch off the tv for a few days to stop giving yourself more grief.

To me 11th September is my dad's birthday so it's always been a significant date.

It's normal to feel like that. I know I still get a twinge when I see the towers in old movies or on shows. In all honsety, I usually have to stop myself from crying when I run across the newspapers I saved from that fateful day and from the week that followed. Heck, I'm getting teary eyed about it right now.

Even though you ddin't know anyone that died, it still pulls at you. I don't know if that feeling will ever go away. I still have dreams (nightmares?) where I'm stuck in one of the towers as it comes down. I've never been to New York, so having these dreams is just bizarre.

I suppose, as a Britisher, I don't know what sort of coverage the anniversary is getting in the States.  It may be that you just need to switch off the tv for a few days to stop giving yourself more grief.


That is quite true. Despite the world changing from that day on (I agree nothing has been the same since), I'm not too sure how many British people/people outside the USA are affected by this date. From my personal viewpoint, if you have lost loved ones, then it is obviously a date of immense grief. If you haven't lost loved ones, a date is a date and the focus should be on the present rather than the anniversary of any disaster. To get a panic everytime you see a date is a bit over-the-top.

That is quite true. Despite the world changing from that day on (I agree nothing has been the same since), I'm not too sure how many British people/people outside the USA are affected by this date. From my personal viewpoint, if you have lost loved ones, then it is obviously a date of immense grief. If you haven't lost loved ones, a date is a date and the focus should be on the present rather than the anniversary of any disaster. To get a panic everytime you see a date is a bit over-the-top.

I don't think seeing the date would put me "over the top" but I do know that seeing that footage on TV makes me sick. When I see those buildings coming down and think of all the people that were trapped in there it's just hard to comprehend  what they went through and what their families did and are still going through.  So, whether you have personally lost loved ones or not, there is still emotion there.  :(

I feel the exact same way when I see that number. I just finished watching the HBO tribute a little while ago and it made me feel the exact same way as if I saw it for the first time.

Sometimes when I see my clock and it reads 9:11,I freak out even though they're only numbers :o






Howard

I don't know exactly how old you are but from your photo (if that is you) I'd say you were still in your early teens.  If so it may just be that you feel emotional over 11th September because it was your first major 'disaster' that you seen reported. .


Maybe this isn't the right way to respond, but I think this reply is a bit unfair.I guess I look young, always have, but I'm actually 26 with a husband and a daughter. This replier made me come off like my feelings about sept 11th are  immature, and thus tried to invalidate how I felt. I know lot of people even older than me that feel the same.

It seems , sorry to go here, but I'm just gonna say it. It may be because you are British. It seems to me that you cant understand, because your country wasn't attacked, terrorism is scary worldwide, and i guess that it dididn't hit close enough to home so as you could understand it.

Sorry if this mail is coming off harshly, its just that it was really uncool to read the first reply as well "the reason you are so emotional" explained away as that I'm not mature enough to feel properly. I guess because i look young.

Sorry for all that, just had to be said

I just lit a candle in my window. I think we were all touched by it in some way. They are holding a candlelight vigil at our firehouse which touches our property. I heard people singing the Star Spangled Banner (not very well  :-\\). Yes, I do remember. I do mourn for those over 3000 people that I never knew.  :\'( :\'( :\'(





Cat

Sometimes when I see my clock and it reads 9:11,I freak out even though they're only numbers :o


You're kidding me?

Maybe this isn't the right way to respond, but I think this reply is a bit unfair.I guess I look young, always have, but I'm actually 26 with a husband and a daughter. This replier made me come off like my feelings about sept 11th are  immature, and thus tried to invalidate how I felt. I know lot of people even older than me that feel the same.

I must come to Karen's aid, Mayleneo. She was merely coming to a conclusion (albeit a false one) based on the photograph in your avatar. She meant no harm in what she said.

It seems , sorry to go here, but I'm just gonna say it. It may be because you are British. It seems to me that you cant understand, because your country wasn't attacked, terrorism is scary worldwide, and i guess that it dididn't hit close enough to home so as you could understand it.

You are probably right. Maybe it hasn't hit closer to home and Terrorism is scary but I still think it's a bit over-the-top to get anxious over anything with the numbers 9-11 next to them. My grandad died in October 2001 (a very important date for me) but I am not going to feel funny if I have £10 and 1 pence in my hand. You may say to me "But Bobby your grandad's death is nothing compared to 9/11" but that occurance makes me feel the way you feel about 9/11.

I am not trying to be belittle your feelings, I just think that, despite 9/11 being a completely tragic case and one we can sympathise with, numbers are just numbers.  ;)

Sorry if this mail is coming off harshly, its just that it was really uncool to read the first reply as well "the reason you are so emotional" explained away as that I'm not mature enough to feel properly. I guess because i look young.

Sorry for all that, just had to be said

No worries, you made your point.  :)

I wish more of my fellow Americans could understand how their country's foreign policy set the stage for the 9/11 massacres WITHOUT jumping to the erroneous conclusion that doing so condones terrorism or suggests that the massacred victims deserved to be murdered.


MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF ALL THE VICTIMS OF THE TERRORIST ATROCITIES OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.  MAY YOUR LOVED ONES BE AT PEACE.
:\'( :\'( :\'(

Well, today my Colorado Buffaloes played a make-up game against Washington State....the game was supposed to be played on September 15, 2001 but was called off for obvious reasons....It was played today....the 3rd anniversary of the tragedy. Also, on Monday September 10, 2001, the Denver Broncos beat the New York Giants and I remember thinking what a great game it was )Except for Ed McCaffrey's leg being broken) and anticipated ESPN to make a big deal of it the next day...little did I or anyone else know :\'(

Maybe this isn't the right way to respond, but I think this reply is a bit unfair.I guess I look young, always have, but I'm actually 26 with a husband and a daughter. This replier made me come off like my feelings about sept 11th are  immature, and thus tried to invalidate how I felt. I know lot of people even older than me that feel the same.

It seems , sorry to go here, but I'm just gonna say it. It may be because you are British. It seems to me that you cant understand, because your country wasn't attacked, terrorism is scary worldwide, and i guess that it dididn't hit close enough to home so as you could understand it.

Sorry if this mail is coming off harshly, its just that it was really uncool to read the first reply as well "the reason you are so emotional" explained away as that I'm not mature enough to feel properly. I guess because i look young.

Sorry for all that, just had to be said

I know how you feel about getting pegged as teen, I've always looked young for my age.  I got carded for liquor until I was 28, and had many people just assume I was in my teens into my mid 20s!
:-[

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but people from other countries started to view America as self-absorbed and myopic the way we behaved like 9/11 was the worst atrocity in the history of mankind.  Nobody outside America treated the massacres as anything less than a savage abomination and a heart-rending tragedy.  However, among the more than six billion souls on planet Earth, Americans lived relatively free from the kind of terror, genocide, and political mayhem visited upon other people around the globe day by day. 
From East Timor to the West Bank, from Bosnia to Bantustan, death and destruction is the daily lot for many millions at any given time.  Terror atrocities such as the slow-motion armegeddon in Central America were made possible courtesy of Uncle Sam, and the carnage is a thousnd times worse.
I'm not saying we should downplay 9/11, but that we should put it in a global perspective, all mankind being equal.

I'm not saying we should downplay 9/11, but that we should put it in a global perspective, all mankind being equal.


Well said, Maxwell.