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I'm curious if I'm the only one that finds the 9/11 memorial services too painful to watch?
 
I won't be watching - not everyone wants to remember (it's much too painful)....
 
^^ White elephant.
 
To me,it's not that it's too painful so much as I don't have an urge to watch it.
I remember it just fine. I remember where I was, what I did that day, who I was with, what I thought, what I felt...

Watching a bunch of talking heads, hazy still shots, accompanied by melodramatic music isn't appealing.

I am going to be with my family having another damn fine day while I am alive.
 
I simply have no interest.
 
Just can't watch - haven't been able to since the live shots 10 years ago. Too many painful memories. I will never forget.
 
Instead of watching it, I just went down to DC bought some flower and put them on the White House lawn. I didn't want to deal with the crowds at the Pentagon.
 
They should let the dead rest in peace, and stop with the memorials and showing that day of destruction with movies and speaches etc. etc..

Just watching the replay of those towers being destroyed, and all those innocent people being killed(murdered). Makes some folk so angry with vengence, they wanna go burn down a bunch of neighborhood Habi'eib owned convienient stores.

Makes me wonder....Just how patient and holding back are the American people ?.
 
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I neither find it "too painful" nor do appreciate the sensationalism of it. Observance of "bad" anniversaries have always struck me as a yearly excuse to just attract attention to oneself. There's something oddly enjoyable about everyone lamenting over your pain, and some people like it enough (secretly) to make a holiday out of it.

If people need to do it, well, whatever, but don't expect me to hold hands and celebrate and cry in remembrance of something I remember just as clearly every other day of the year.

Edit: Incidentally, I don't have any cable/satellite TV. My 46" flat screen serves as my Home Theatre Personal Computer (HTPC). So I am not watching. Were it not for this thread I'd hardly realize they were making such a holiday out of it.
 
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We should remember all of the casualties of 9/11:

9/11
Civilian 2996

Afghanistan
Civilian 8832+
Coalition 2710

Iraq
Civilian 102417+
Coalition 4792

iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom | Afghanistan
Iraq Body Count
Casualty Monitor: Civilian Casualties: Afghanistan
September 11 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Until that is happening, I find it half-hearted. I also agree that it's sensational how they take something so tragic and horrible and shove it in our faces every year, followed by speeches about how our overseas campaigns are necessary. Please just stop already.
 
Seeing that both my son and I have birthdays on or very near terrorist attack days, I prefer not to care that much.
Seems that a lot of people are using these days for shameless self promotion anyway.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Seeing that both my son and I have birthdays on or very near terrorist attack days, I prefer not to care that much.
Seems that a lot of people are using these days for shameless self promotion anyway.
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Herman Cain being the most recent and horrific example. Anyone else see that video of his?
 
Deuce said:
Herman Cain being the most recent and horrific example. Anyone else see that video of his?
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Nah, I haven't been paying attention to all the noise.
Just noticed that a local church was advertising a memorial for it, putting flags up and everything, when it's very unlikely that anyone with the church had any connection to the people that died.

That's not even getting into all the TV networks doing crap for it as well.
 
Top Cat said:
I'm curious if I'm the only one that finds the 9/11 memorial services too painful to watch?
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I'm not watching it because I don't feel like giving audience to a bunch of arrogant, self-serving politicians, who thought it more important to include themselves in this event than to include the actual heros and survivors of that terrible day. Shame on them.

Painful or not, I do think it is important to remember this event. But there are plenty of other ways to do so.

 
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We should remember all of the casualties of 9/11:

9/11
Civilian 2996

Afghanistan
Civilian 8832+
Coalition 2710

Iraq
Civilian 102417+
Coalition 4792

iCasualties | Operation Enduring Freedom | Afghanistan
Iraq Body Count
Casualty Monitor: Civilian Casualties: Afghanistan
September 11 attacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Until that is happening, I find it half-hearted. I also agree that it's sensational how they take something so tragic and horrible and shove it in our faces every year, followed by speeches about how our overseas campaigns are necessary. Please just stop already.
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One key difference - those killed in the US on 9/11 were not only innocent civilians, but were deliberately targted for death. The others you mention were casualties of war, an inescapable loss when war is engaged.

To me that is a significant difference.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Nah, I haven't been paying attention to all the noise.
Just noticed that a local church was advertising a memorial for it, putting flags up and everything, when it's very unlikely that anyone with the church had any connection to the people that died.

That's not even getting into all the TV networks doing crap for it as well.
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A-meeeeeerr--ica, [horrible screaming] the beeaau-ti-ful, [shouts of "oh my god! oh my god!"]

No. Seriously. He used footage from 9/11 and sang a voiceover, leaving the audio intact from the original footage. Oh, and he needs a vocal coach.

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One key difference - those killed in the US on 9/11 were not only innocent civilians, but were deliberately targted for death. The others you mention were casualties of war, an inescapable loss when war is engaged.

To me that is a significant difference.
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To the families of the dead civilians on either end, I really don't think there is a difference.
 
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I am sick of the 9/11 keening and whining for gratuitous reasons. I am ****ing sick of it. I'm sick of the chest beating. I'm sick of the grandstanding and using 9/11 to forward the fictitious war against terrorism. I'm sick of Budweiser commercials with soft oboes and the Statue of Liberty in the background with "We will never forget". Give me a freaking break. What's the point of the commercial if it isn't to sell beer? Budweiser isn't even an American company, they sold out to the Belgians.
 
Oh that was just bad. I think I may have gotten the reason, but it was just poorly excuted.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Seeing that both my son and I have birthdays on or very near terrorist attack days, I prefer not to care that much.
Seems that a lot of people are using these days for shameless self promotion anyway.
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Whoa! All this time I've been thinking you were gay.
 
Today is my mother's birthday.
 
I wasn't going to watch anything, but all these specials are on and here I am.
 
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