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Suitsmefine

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm sitting here just lurking away and my husband has the T.V. on and I get drawn into this show...entitled "No Greater Love", which has all the survivors and victoms stories of 9-11, and I am thinking... what am I doing fighting over which hamster makes it to the end?....I feel so BAD right now....

Vanillarose

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nah. We have to get back to our trivial, shallow, but normal way of life. JMHO.

Willow_Woman

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was *so, so so* into BB2 last year. Then, 9/11 and I stopped watching altogether. It made everything seem so....unimportant.

Lurknomore

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suitsme...I knew 2 guys that were on the second plane into the WTC. I feel confident in saying that for at least them, and I'm sure MANY others, that the very last thing they would want is for the evil people who did this to take our joys away from us.

I think what should truly make us all feel bad is if we give away the power to live our FREE lives away. That is what those morons (boy is that an edit) wanted. And part of our lives in America is silly, frivilous fun such as BB. If we do nothing but sit in fear and sadness from what they did on that horrible day, then they won. And I'll be damned if I will partake in that.

So I think we can best honor our American lives by living our lives and enjoying our freedoms...hampster fighting and all :)

Surini

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suitsmefine, I watched that before I got on live feeds....a real dose of reality. So sad!

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As I sit here with my half used box of kleenex, I am so drawn back to last year and the way they told Monica.....and I'm thinking 'when she got out of that hamster cage, she found out a member of her family was involved in a TRAGIC event that evected the WHOLE world and that poor girl had NO idea..... and somehow, it makes me feel really stupid for getting so upset over WHO will be left standing.....And just how sick am I for still caring????

Crossfire

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, you got two choices. Spend the rest of your life feeling bad, and not having fun, or stick it to them, and pick a favorite.

Maris

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I stopped watching BB2 on 9/11. My plan this year is to not watch the feeds on that day. I won't watch tv. I will go to church and I will think of how lucky we all are to have this life.

I think everyone should commemorate the day this year by doing what they want, enjoy themselves, say a prayer if they want to, carry on. Being the first in my family born in this country, I know how lucky we are to have the freedoms that we have and the best thing we can do is enjoy them.

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way."
-Victor Frankl

Jack_Russell

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suitsmefine, I watched Dateline as well. I thought it was well done, I thought I wouldn't get emotional but when they showed the pictures of the victims at the end that definatly got me. But don't feel bad watching BB. We all know whats important, but life doesn't stop and we need to laugh and enjoy what we wish to enjoy. As silly as BB is, it's all in fun. So please don't feel guilty.

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lurknomore, you were posting as I was typing... TY....I got so wrapped up that I let my emotions get the best of me...So true , can't let them take that away...I watched as the second plane went into the WTC... and mistakenly, for a split second thought they were replaying the earlier event... and was totally devastated at the realization.... I had family in the Oklahoma City bombing, which I know is on a totally different level politically, but the destruction is the same....I just wish Ihad the chance to say good-bye.............................

Gidget

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was watching it too. The title of the show really got me. I kept tearing up. There is so much good in us. Hope no one gets mad but "God Bless America".

Tracy

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suitsmefine, you're not sick at all for caring about the outcome of a meaningless reality show. As human beings, I don't think it's healthy for us to give over to sadness and despair. We need respite and that can be whatever works for you. We have to be aware of what's really important in this world but we can't spend all our time agonizing over all the world's ills either. JMHO.

Observerx

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
God Bless US ALL.

Surini

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gidget, I for one certainly won't get mad for you saying it, I'll ditto it...God Bless America.

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
O.K. you guys, once again, you bring a smile to my face when nothing else seems to do...GOD BLESS AMERICA, THE WORLD, and OUR CHILDREN!!!! And GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU!!!!

Wadsters

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Maris,
Nice post...I too found that para quite moving.

If we would all choose...

All the best to you and yours this year.

Vanillarose

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just re-read my post. and realized that it probably sounds a little callous, so I'd like to explain. I was just trying to make a point that we have to get on with living normal lives. Otherwise we give the terrorists a victory. It is a tragedy of almost unimaginable magnitude, and getting on with our everyday, petty pleasures and bickerings doesn't mean that we forget the victims for one minute.

Jhezzie

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This has been a handy distraction, actually. The attacks hit me and my friends very hard. One of my NY friends managed not to be hurt, photographing it for one of the news services. She ate alot of dust. My best friend spent the day trying to keep her classroom of 3rd graders from losing it. They could see it from across the bridge.
Her brother attended funerals from Oct. to March. He ran for his life, as his building was evacuated just as the 1st tower collapsed. He worked across the street. Luckily, my cousin was out of the way, in DC, across from the Pentagon.
My dad and his brother have their birthday on Sept. 11th and we are going to attempt a happy few hours for them.
I think about it every day. Several times. Sometimes, it's analytical, sometimes emotional. I remember my friends e-mail and phone calls, once they got phone service back, and Ewing's posts.
Getting caught up in the HGs nonsense is about the only place that 9/11 doesn't pop up. Sometimes the shallow end is nice.:)

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Vanilla, never thought for a moment that you were being callous, We all stand together it just really got to me tonight, I try to avoid those type of shows... because I get a little emotional... I didn't mean to bring anyone down, it just struck me that I was getting petty, and that is something I don't want to be....so in the words of Mr. Beamer...." Let's Roll...."

Vanillarose

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 08:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Suitsme, for letting me know you knew where I was coming from. I agree...Let's roll on!

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 09:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Vanilla, We are all coming from the same place, hopefully, it is a peaceful one.....

Puck1021

Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 03:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched it with my 13 year old son, I told him......"It ain't the WWF, it ain't the 4.2 million a year baseball players, it ain't the football or basketball players he loves to watch that are real Heroes, it IS the guys that were on Flight 93, those are true "Heroes".

Nanarobin

Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 03:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I, too, have been watching the 9/11 showings on network and on History Channel. Brings back being glued to the tv during 'those' times last year.

I remember what our leaders told us afterward:

TO NOT LET BIN LADEN GET TO US...TO GO ON WITH OUR NORMAL LIVES...SHOW THEM WE ARE NOT DEFEATED BY THE COWARDLY ACTS OF TERRORISM!!!

The tragedy was horrible but we all can endure, but with great sympathy for those lost. We can never go back to being '9/10' (as I heard one person describe it)...we must be better.

Watching BB3 and these boards proves that we can do just that...GO ON WITH OUT LIVES AS NORMAL.

FWIW--IMO...now off my soapbox and back to lurkin'

Mack

Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 04:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks to all of you for sharing your feelings. My wife and I work at the Pentagon and were there the day of the attack. Of the 124 people killed 7 were close friends. As the anniversay gets closer it has been more difficult to watch TV as our minds and hearts are drawn back to that day. I've actually been relying more on this board than the live feeds or the show. NEVER FORGET!

Dogdoc

Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 05:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I kept coming to the board here last year on Sept 11. I was home alone with no one to talk to about it.By watchig the news and coming to the board I was amoung friends.I didn't post but I found comfort in reading messages from others. I am in western Pennsylvania. They reported a plane down here but no one knew at first that it was related to the other tragedies. I learned about the Pentagon plane from the board before I heard it on the news. God bless America, but God bless the world also.