Happy Towers Day...The pile of rubble is gone, but there is still a gaping hole in the middle of New York City... the wound at the heart of the land of the free didn't even slightly became a scar... it didn't heal at all... how comes? Where is the grand monument promised to the survivors and the victim's families? Wasn't there something like a freedom tower planned?
I shouldn't be surprised... but I still am that only after 8 years this solidarity created by the victims of an unrivalled, appalling terrorist act was apparently only a farce... a fragile one to boot. 8 years and still... nothing but delays and political quarrels between incompetent groups... it's sad... so very sad.
But who am I to talk? I'm from Germany after all and how much did 9/11 affect my life? Not. At. All. and as I said last year, I can't properly mourn over something that doesn't affect me. Of course, there are genuine feelings of grief regarding this sad anniversary and there should be. I respect that and will therefore not descend into hypocrisy and mourn myself. As *Agent-Elrond put it quite nicely: I will honor the dead by living. I will honor the bad by doing good. I will honor the past by looking forward.
But it is not the terrorism, or the deaths that make me sad... it's the aftermath. Instead of uniting the people of America, they are more divided than ever... and even after two wars AND causing an economical crisis that still is tearing down the world, they haven't learned anything at all...
To all the people who actually try to be human:
Mourn, if you need to, or do as Rondie and I said above... look forward and live... but make it a day to remember... make it a day worth it....
Happy Towers Day...
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Personally it isn't something that struck me too awfully hard and it really doesn't trouble my soul that much. Its just they way life and humanity played out its hand on the world. I know that at the time I was still a bit young to understand what was going on and just sat in the background (even from the very beginning) and watched as the public definitions of words changed in this society.
And your totally right. What started as a great chance to unify the American people has only turned into a self fulfilling depression. One of the reasons I was glad to get out of the U.S. when I did and one of the reasons I still want to get out now. I almost wish there was a U.N. nation so that you wouldn't have to fear any prejudice or persecution of other countries and religion. Cause I know for a fact that I hate going around the world as the "American".
Anyway, I understand your view and pretty much agree with it.
... Where the heck this long jibe came from I don't know o_O? But a well, I spoke my mind.
You should know that I don't think being an American is bad... quite the opposite in fact. I've learned that Americans are quite delightful people. They're also (often) willing to discuss and learn, but it's that the USA build a culture of ignorance that just baffles me as it's so damn opposite to the open-mindedness I've seen in many individuals. It's too much to ask to know every head of state in the Western world (I sure as heck don't know it), but sometimes it seems like americans don't even KNOW that there is a world beyond the coasts.
I had lots of fun discussions with them (as I have with you), but I think the government, the media and society sets up bad standards which affect the people...
I just hope that they will smarten up soon enough...
Thanks for the comment :3
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honest ones, words from my heart
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