09-12-2012, 10:48 PM
To be fair, is it really necessary to have a thread for every anniversary here? Believe me when I heard all about it yesterday, and to be honest, I just don't like hearing about it. I'm not at all suggesting that i have put it out of my mind, but there comes a point when hearing snippets of radio news announcements of people screaming in shock as planes fall out of the sky, and others jumping to escape the flames kinda gets to you. I'm never going to forget it, but I don't need any additional reminders.
Every Saturday I cross over into Staten Island, I can see Manhattan way in the distance. For years, i saw the empty patch of sky where they used to be, and now I see the new building growing with each week. I remember coming home and seeing it all unfold on the news. In December 2001, I had the experience of seeing the wreckage for myself, and passing all the flattened and destroyed fire trucks staged along route 440 in Staten Island. There were people in there.
To me, I get a weekly reminder of all of that when I see that new building. So I'm kinda glad that others here don't see the need to bring up September 11 either, since Trains are supposed to be the hobby that allows me to escape from this madness.
The reality is, dwelling on this doesn't really do a lot of good. It just fills me with an impossible rage, it gets to the point where I wish I could just fry every single one of those "terrorists", and just burn them off the planet. But you know what? All that will do is enrage more people, and just make everyone that much closer to killing eachother needlessly. Its carthartic on an evil scale, and the short term satisfaction it may have brought does not help us be better in the long term.
I'd rather be hearing about how this country has progressed since then, and how we have overcome the sort of destruction that September 11 was supposed to mean for this country, but thats just me.
Every Saturday I cross over into Staten Island, I can see Manhattan way in the distance. For years, i saw the empty patch of sky where they used to be, and now I see the new building growing with each week. I remember coming home and seeing it all unfold on the news. In December 2001, I had the experience of seeing the wreckage for myself, and passing all the flattened and destroyed fire trucks staged along route 440 in Staten Island. There were people in there.
To me, I get a weekly reminder of all of that when I see that new building. So I'm kinda glad that others here don't see the need to bring up September 11 either, since Trains are supposed to be the hobby that allows me to escape from this madness.
The reality is, dwelling on this doesn't really do a lot of good. It just fills me with an impossible rage, it gets to the point where I wish I could just fry every single one of those "terrorists", and just burn them off the planet. But you know what? All that will do is enrage more people, and just make everyone that much closer to killing eachother needlessly. Its carthartic on an evil scale, and the short term satisfaction it may have brought does not help us be better in the long term.
I'd rather be hearing about how this country has progressed since then, and how we have overcome the sort of destruction that September 11 was supposed to mean for this country, but thats just me.
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.
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