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Yeah, I'm still looking up help links for aid and such.

Sorry about the rant about PETA, dumb people piss me off. It also turns out I had many friends lose people in the incidents, so I'm taking a *very* dim view of those who make light of this.
 
I feel your pain, rosh. While I don't (to my knowledge) know anyone who has lost someone, the brother-in-law of one of my best friends worked at the WTC. He got caught in traffic and was late arriving. If he had arrived on time he probably wouldn't be here now. My friend is a bit fragile. If that had happened, she might have lost it...

"I'm Home"

-Rei Ayanami, End Of Evangelion
 
I know how it goes. I was in numb shock for about a year and a half until my uncle's death finally got to me. It was odd...

Even the thought of a close friend dying is enough to shake someone up. Hell, I've got friends who merely got sick off of hearing about it, and they are marines who HAVE killed people.

It's a sad day...
 
I just found out a school mate is one of those missing at the WTC
and that he had been working there for the last five years.I'm at a loss of words but to say I'm glad to see the your help posts Rosh and realy hope more people are found at the WTC.Also I can't help but remember a quote from Yomato after the attack on
Pearl.."I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with terrible resolve."
Nekron
 
I didn't lose anyone in the attack, but I know a few people via the internet that live in New York. One of them was two blocks away when the planes hit. He said it was the scariest day of his life.

Even though I personally don't know anyone who was lost in these events, I'm not sure how anyone could not be affected by what happened. I don't think there are words to describe the range of emotions I've felt over the passed several days, everything from loss to sadness to anger to being completely drained.

Someone in the #arcanum chat on gamesnet.net asked me how I felt about it, and I told them, "Right now, I'm uncomfortably pissed off." I think that's the closest I've come to getting the words out that described what I've felt over the passed several days.

Anyway, I'm babbling now, so I'll stop there.
 
>Even though I personally don't know
>anyone who was lost in
>these events, I'm not sure
>how anyone could not be
>affected by what happened. I
>don't think there are words
>to describe the range of
>emotions I've felt over the
>passed several days, everything from
>loss to sadness to anger
>to being completely drained.

Usually I'm pretty indifferent to terrorist attacks and death in general. When the OK federal building was attacked I thought it was tragic, but I really didn't feel much. The same went for the WTC bombing in '93, and the embassy bombings in Africa.

However the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon affected me. It was strange, I really did feel like the country was violated somehow. I think it was when the towers actually collapsed that I felt that way. If those planes merely left holes in the WTC I would've probably just thought, "gee, what a horrible thing to happen," but seeing BOTH towers collapse in a cloud of steel, concrete, dust and aspestos hit it home. Furthermore, the attack on the Pentagon initially had me feeling that many other places in the country were going to be attacked.

I have to wonder what I would've felt if that fourth plane hit the White House. You never really think those places are vulnerable to those kinds of attacks. I always figured the attack would have to come in the form of a naval or ground attack, that an attack from the air would be nearly impossible.

Guess not.

-Xotor-

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