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Author: Ed Case (---.ne.client2.attbi.com)
Date: 08-21-02 16:56
Please post your comments and reflections about the events of September 11 on this discussion board. |
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| Responses to September 11 |
Author: Carolyn Lembeck (---.cac.psu.edu)
Date: 09-05-02 15:25
When I ask myself whether I have more or less HOPE after September 11, I find that I do not have an answer to that. I am left most of all with a sense of uncertainty about the future, especially in light of the talk of war in Iraq. It is not an unfamiliar feeling. I recognize it in the memories I have of growing up during blackouts in WWII, gathering in the hallways of our high school and covering the backs of our necks to practice survival of A-bomb attacks, going to bed the night of the Cuban missile crisis and not knowing if we would wake up the next morning, worrying about our two children, should they survive, and we did not. And these images are far from the "battlefront!"; they are from the warmth and security of my own home and community. But they are always reminders of how tenuous our security is, especially in our open democracy.
The feeling I do keep at the deepest level is my faith in what is unchangeable and eternal, God's presence in our lives and the vision of the world in His image. I suppose that is a kind of hope.
Thank you for this opportunity to share these thoughts.
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| Re: Let's Roll |
Author: Sylvia (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: 09-05-02 19:40
I watched the events of Sept. 11 with a sense of disbelief, yet I shouldn't have. All the signs of the hatred towards America evidenced by the Muslim extremists were there - the Tower bombing of 1993, the attacks on our embassies in Africa, the Khobar towers bombing, the bombing of the USS Cole. Not to mention the involvment of Islamic extremist groups in the Israeli-Arab conflicts. The fact is, there is a large body of fanatics who hate us and cherish a vision of a fundamentalist Islamic state, purged of both Jews and Christians, as well as moderate Muslims.
We honor the dead of Sept. 11 best when we resolve to find and punish those responsible, and make sure they can never do this again. We must go after both states and individuals that harbor terrorists and that are involved in obtaining weapons of mass destruction and finance international terrorism. We do this with no sense of pride or boasting, but because we must, because we were the ones attacked on 9/11, and we don't want to see New York or any other American city in flames again or a large nuclear hole where a city was.
So my response to Sept. 11 is - let's roll! |
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Author: Margarita Suarez (152.35.31.---)
Date: 09-09-02 10:02
On September 11, 2001 I was teaching a class on Introduction to Biblical Literature and History and when I left class at 11am I heard what had happened and thought it surreal. In the days which followed I realized that my reactions left me more out of the loop than I usually feel. As a Latina and a person working toward conversion into Judaism, I didn't feel the same level of nationalism and unity which seemed to seize the media, and through their eyes, the rest of the country. I recognized that the United States has often been the bully in the school of international relations and that we were hated, as a nation, in many parts of the world. We have supported repressive regimes time and again around the world. So although I was terribly upset by the horrific events of September 11, I was not "shocked" by the level of hatred that precipitated them.
I have close relatives that live in NYC and one who works on the 60th floor of the Empire State Building who watched the first plane enter the WTC tower. On the phone with his brother at that moment, unsure of this were an accident, realized after the second plane crashed that his building could indeed be next. Being a New Yorker myself, but living away from the city now, I felt an ache to be with my people, that amorphous group called New Yorkers. The many friends and family members I have there drew me to closer connectedness with New York, more than being an American, I am a New Yorker - a center of immigrant peoples, outsiders, others, those hoping to find a new home, a place of safetly - only to have experienced this act of depravity. |
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