Having been inundated with 9/11 media all over again the last few days, and with more so to come -- I feel myself getting very irritable. Coworkers are sending out stuff to read and look at... and now I can't help but want to go home and cry Am I just a crybaby when it comes to this or what???

 

Flame me if you want, I'm sick of all this 9-11 crap. The past year it's all I hear about. Can we move on and realize there are larger problems other than what happened in the past? There are thousands of people who are still dying because of hunger, domestic abuse, drinking and driving. It seems like we are neglecting the things we knew were problems prior to 9-11.

We are doing exactly what the terrorists wanted, keep dwelling in the fact they won their little battle. We've had a year to mourn, let's start solving other issues. Hell, terrorism has happened in other countries for decades, welcome to the real world America.

 

I don't think you're overreacting. I think many of us (myself included), suppressed some of our initial reactions to 9/11, and are going to feel the aftershocks for several years.

What I found interesting is the subtle and not-so-subtle changes we've seen in our society over the past year. One of my direct reports returned from overseas last year, having been back home in China when the attacks happened. She cried in my office one day, mouring that "the America I left... is gone, and what's back, reminds me too much of China."

Every time I've started to feel that a layer of government intervention is worth the freedoms sacrificed, I've remembered her comparison.

Tim

 

thunderchicken, while I understand what you're saying, I think that's rather like telling someone who's just been raped to "get over it," since women get raped all the time.

True, we were naive in a thousand little ways, and it was high time we "grew up" and realized that we weren't living in a global Mayberry, where the biggest problem was Otis, the town drunk. Even so, I can't help but feel a sense of pain that it took something like this to get us to come to grips with the real world.

If there are positives that I can see from all this, I think one of them is that we can sympathize with victims of terror attacks in the Middle East much more than we (as a nation) were able to do before. Having it happen in your own back yard (for some, literally) changes your perspective.

Tim

 

What's worse about all of this, yes it was a tragety, but many many companies are making a killing off of it. Painted trade tower quarters, NYPD/NYFD apparel, etc. I was in NYC over memorial day and I was amazed there was more 9/11 stuff here than what I saw there, other than street vendors which aren't around Indy.

If companies started selling, "I get beat by my husband" apparel, think of the public outcry.

 

Well, to me it's sad that the majority of americans have no clue there is life outside the American Border. It's worse that it took thousands of lives for Americans to read about foreign issues and become educated that this stuff happens, and it will happen again. I'm not saying "get over it", I'm saying let's not forget the other domestic problems other than terrorism. Let's still give to charities that need our support, like food banks, blood drives, homeless shelters. I never sent a dime to any Twin Towers funds, but I did send money to local charities because of exactly what happened, people channeled their funds to NYC leaving local charities the lack of giving it had over that long of a period.

 

I was grocery shopping last night and the milk i bought expires 9/11, tried to find a different one but they all expire on that day. As i continued to shop, i noticed the eggs expire on that day also. On all the meat products it says, use or freeze by 9/11.

 

Shop today and everything will expire on 9/12

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by thunderchicken
[B]Shop today and everything will expire on 9/12

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by come_undone
[B]

Well actually i bought the milk several days ago when i first noticed it.