Does anyone else still cry when they think about the victims?

[senseandsensibility]

I cried every day for weeks after 9-11. The thought of the terror and suffering of those poor people was unbearable to me. In those days, before the intense politicization of the attack, I saw it in very human terms. I still do.

Today should be about them. I haven't watched a second of the TV coverage, but I have cried. All it took was the thought of those anguished souls jumping from the burning buildings. I still can't bear it.:cry:

[socialist_n_TN]

1. Not cry exactly, but I never got beyond sadness

When the MSM was trumpeting the public going past sadness to anger, I never got there.

And 10 years later, I'm STILL not there.

[BeFree]

2. It is terrible

Still hurts 10 years later.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Babies born posthumously because of politics and terror ,is tragic

I cry when I hear those heroes inside the buildings on radios reassuring each other.

[Brickbat]

4. No. The one thing that made me teary was hearing about the Jewish volunteers who sat at Ground Zero

because of the tradition that a corpse must not be alone before burial. I found that moving.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Yes.

[edhopper]

6. I cannot even think about

those poor people in the towers.
It is too horrific.

[XanaDUer]

7. I don't cry, but I do think about the terror that they must have felt

when they realized what was probably happening, that they had to jump or burn to death...

[alsame]

8. I was in Manhattan almost daily during late Sept and Oct that year and

the most heartbreaking thing for me was all the posters of the missing people. They were hung everywhere, smiling photos of people with their names and a contact number. I couldn't walk down the street without crying.

Even now that's what haunts me, all those smiling faces never to be seen again.

[senseandsensibility]

20. I saw that on TV from California

I will never forget it.

[Lucian]

9. In all honesty, no, I don't.

I never cried. All I felt was anger. Anger that this could've been prevented if Bush would've done something to prevent it when he had the chance to.

[senseandsensibility]

23. Anger was the cause of some of my tears

I cry when I get angry. So yes, I understand your anger.

[JanMichael]

10. no. I feel as badly for them as I do all people who died in bad

accidents, or tragedies or wars. But, no I don't cry.

[XanaDUer]

11. And Americans who die from lack of basic healthcare

I think of them, too.

[JanMichael]

12. Yep, and the ones who are in homeless camps today

wondering how they are going to get dinner...I am thinking of them pretty hard today-

[XanaDUer]

30. Yes.

:grouphug:

[lunatica]

13. Yes. I still cry, especially when I see a survivor or relative of a victim cry

I know what it is to lose someone suddenly. My brother died in an accident.

[pipi_k]

25. Oh me too...

that's all it takes for me...to see someone else cry.

Sometimes I've gone to a wake and cried in the receiving line when the family have been crying, even if I didn't really know the deceased.

Last time that happened, the deceased person's grown daughter was trying to comfort ME. Sigh...embarrassing...

[Odin2005]

14. I have the image of people jumping to their deaths seared into my brain.

[aikoaiko]

31. This image has stayed with me from the live coverage. The photographs drilled it in.

The photo of the woman standing at the edge of the gaping hole (I think where a plane entered) haunts me.

[MerryBlooms]

15. Yes.

For those that perished that day and what was surely their agonizing terror. For all those lost since, both military and civilian... those of us who remember pre 9/11, I think we also mourn for the false sense of innocence lost.

[lillypaddle]

16. Oh yes

I still cry.

[Whisp]

17. it's terrible, as so many other things.

I just can't find myself picking this event as suffering at it's ultimate. There is so much all over the world every year, every day, every minute that is unimaginably horrible.

I feel for the individuals that lost so much, but balling thsi up into some kind of Event Situation of Celebration or something just feels all wrong. Where the Guiliani's can capitalize on it for their own egos and such. I can't bear watching any of that on the tv. It's like one huge big sappy Halmark greeting card.

[Autumn]

18. No I don't cry for them. I didn't know anyone who died

there personally. I am saddened for their families and all the waste of lives.

[kestrel91316]

19. I don't. I didn't know any of them personally, and it's been 10 years.

I think of the whole ugly mess with sadness and a heavy sigh.

[msongs]

21. does "victims" include the huge numbers of people our military murdered in Iraq as well? nt

[senseandsensibility]

22. I was strongly against the invasion of Iraq

from the very beginning, and protested before and during it. I'm against everything that happened as a result, and I blame the previous administration. Yes, I've cried about that, too.

[pipi_k]

24. When it first happened I didn't cry until

they started telling personal stories.

People out putting up posters with their loved ones' faces on them, hoping they hadn't been in the towers but might be wandering around the city someplace in shock.

All together, the 3000+ deaths were too much to digest.

But individually...yes. I cried.

I still do sometimes, when I hear about one story or another.

:(

[QC]

26. I do, for the people who died that day and for what America lost. n/t

[krabigirl]

27. Yes, which is one reason I won't watch it over and over again every year.

[emulatorloo]

28. I remember the days afterwards, when relatives wandered the streets with pictures of their loved one

Hanging on to the slim possibility that their father, brother, sister, mother, son or daughter had escaped death somehow. Talking to the reporters about their loved one, asking everyone to keep looking. I cried so many times those days.

[Lyric]

29. Yes, especially when I remember the jumpers.

Nothing scarred my psyche as badly as those people who jumped rather than burn to death. Maybe it's because of the photos that documented it. I just pray that they felt no pain. It was so horrible.

:(

[applegrove]

32. What made me cry hard was a few months later when NBC did a special on how

muslims were being treated when they visited ground zero. They had hidden cameras. People came up to them and said "are you okay, are you being left alone". And it was waterworks for me.

[rainbow4321]

33. I couldn't shake sad thoughts last night (9/10/11)

That 10 years ago on 9/10/11 families were spending their last night with their loved ones...last everything...how they probably went about their average evening chores, playtime, meals, everything else. Never in their wildest nightmares could they have suspected what was to come in a few hours time.

[Jack Sprat]

34. No, I didn't lose any loved ones that day.

Normally, I have never cried for non family relatives or myself. I didn't cry for Katrina victims despite living there at the time. I haven't shed any tears for the 4000 plus military members who have died since Bush utilized 9/11 to start a long, expensive war in Iraq which had no relation to 9/11 attackers.

In a completely stoic world, I have wept for my dog's passing last March but little else. The thought of the wasteful deaths and truck loads of American dollars spent specifically to seek retribution on one individual makes me want to scream, but not cry. Why? Oh Why? Some retribution against the training camps in Afghanistan was warranted, but we are now going on 9 years of really punishing ourselves for Bush's great folly, which he never apologized for or took accountable for. Grrrrr

[Initech]

35. No, I am more saddened that the military industrial police state complex took over that day.

And we haven't been the same since.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. Yeah. I mean, it's hard not to get emotional when you see it again, or when you hear about

the family with the one year old on the plane, that sort of thing.

Awful. Simply terrible, stupid, horrific and horrible what happened that day.

[Raine]

37. I can't even bear to think of it, it's so heartbreaking. nt

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