(09-13-2021, 07:24 AM)The Drifter Wrote: I started watching some of the footage that was recorded and broadcast that day. I lasted about 7 minutes before I had to turn it off....All the rage, anger, and pure hatred I felt that  morning came back stronger than ever. Part of me wants to lose all that, part of me wants to hang on to those feelings. In a way, I hope I never lose what I felt that day. Because if things start going really bad here in the USA, and it really hits the fan, I want those feelings to motivate me to take action, armed or unarmed, doesn't matter. I have a great deal of pride in my country and I always have. This is the greatest nation on the face of the planet. A beacon of hope for others and I will defend it until my last breath.

There is a piece written by a guy at Time magazine that appeared in a standalone photo publication they put out in October 2001. I'll get it from my closet later when my husband gets up to go to work. It speaks to this very thing. He said we don't need grief counselors to rush in and try to make everyone feel better because we shouldn't want to feel better. Not at first. We need to feel the anger, sadness, shock, terror, etc., in order to process it alk like we should. And we should be outraged. 

I don't remember the author's name or I'd try to find the article now and share it here. I agreed with what he said and I agree with it now. I didn't have the same experience and emotional reaction as people who were here in the country during that time but I was plenty angry and I resigned myself to the fact that people I knew were going to be deployed and possibly die because of it. Sadly I was right.

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