EmptyTimCup
09-13-2011, 08:12 AM
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this is a great piece ....
but I have to wonder, do people really grow up so clueless, not knowing 'someone had been trying to kill us' For Decades
We Are Parenting the Post 9-11 Generation (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/we-are-parenting-the-post-9-11-generation/?singlepage=true)
I was in my senior year of high school that day, and like the rest of the country, experienced the flood of emotions: fear, anger, grief, shock. At school, we watched as the second plane flew into the second tower. We watched as people chose to jump to their deaths in order to escape the fiery hell burning inside the buildings. We listened to the tearful phone calls from on board the hijacked planes and wept at the loss of the heroes aboard Flight 93. We mourned the loss of the men and women who gave their lives to try to save others, the ones who ran in while everyone else was running out. The weeks following 9-11 were a blur of mourning and tears, of fear and confusion. At the time, I couldn’t understand how this happened, why it happened.
I understand now, of course. What I didn’t know, what I was never told, was that they had been trying to kill us for decades, that this was in no way the first time terrorists had attacked us. That peaceful, innocent naiveté was shattered to pieces that day.
It’s a completely different world now, and my son was born into it. He’ll never know what the before was like, he won’t know what it was like to think of war as an idea and not a reality. With a father in the Marine Corps, he’ll be more affected by it than most. Benjamin will never know what that day was like. He’ll read about it, he’ll hear about it. He’ll probably see video clips about it. But he’ll never be able to fully understand the horror of 9-11. He’ll never feel the fear, the anguish, and the grief that we all felt. None of the children born after 9-11 will. It’s a bittersweet feeling for me.
as someone who was in high school in the 80's I heard all the hand wringing, by people on the left, were all going to die from MAD, because of the Cold War ... :cds: oh the horrors ..... the protests in West Germany over Pershing II Missiles .... Carlos the Jackal, Terrorists hijacking planes, blowing them up ... the IRA .... Marxists Thugs killing people, in terrorist attacks ....
Really .... someone, mad at the US, someone who hated Democracy, some towel head still pissed 10 generations since 'The Crusades' over the Christian Invasion .... there has always been someone, somewhere pissed off at Americans wanting to kill us - some are just more active than others ..
I was listening to someone on WMAL on Monday, and some 'liberal' was talking about having to console their 6 yr old, the child was all upset over the terrorist and 9-11 .... I was thinking to myself, WTF are you doing to your child getting them upset to the point of tears and nightmares over this .... geez let the child be a child ..... plenty of time for education in world politics later in High School
this is a great piece ....
but I have to wonder, do people really grow up so clueless, not knowing 'someone had been trying to kill us' For Decades
We Are Parenting the Post 9-11 Generation (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/we-are-parenting-the-post-9-11-generation/?singlepage=true)
I was in my senior year of high school that day, and like the rest of the country, experienced the flood of emotions: fear, anger, grief, shock. At school, we watched as the second plane flew into the second tower. We watched as people chose to jump to their deaths in order to escape the fiery hell burning inside the buildings. We listened to the tearful phone calls from on board the hijacked planes and wept at the loss of the heroes aboard Flight 93. We mourned the loss of the men and women who gave their lives to try to save others, the ones who ran in while everyone else was running out. The weeks following 9-11 were a blur of mourning and tears, of fear and confusion. At the time, I couldn’t understand how this happened, why it happened.
I understand now, of course. What I didn’t know, what I was never told, was that they had been trying to kill us for decades, that this was in no way the first time terrorists had attacked us. That peaceful, innocent naiveté was shattered to pieces that day.
It’s a completely different world now, and my son was born into it. He’ll never know what the before was like, he won’t know what it was like to think of war as an idea and not a reality. With a father in the Marine Corps, he’ll be more affected by it than most. Benjamin will never know what that day was like. He’ll read about it, he’ll hear about it. He’ll probably see video clips about it. But he’ll never be able to fully understand the horror of 9-11. He’ll never feel the fear, the anguish, and the grief that we all felt. None of the children born after 9-11 will. It’s a bittersweet feeling for me.
as someone who was in high school in the 80's I heard all the hand wringing, by people on the left, were all going to die from MAD, because of the Cold War ... :cds: oh the horrors ..... the protests in West Germany over Pershing II Missiles .... Carlos the Jackal, Terrorists hijacking planes, blowing them up ... the IRA .... Marxists Thugs killing people, in terrorist attacks ....
Really .... someone, mad at the US, someone who hated Democracy, some towel head still pissed 10 generations since 'The Crusades' over the Christian Invasion .... there has always been someone, somewhere pissed off at Americans wanting to kill us - some are just more active than others ..
I was listening to someone on WMAL on Monday, and some 'liberal' was talking about having to console their 6 yr old, the child was all upset over the terrorist and 9-11 .... I was thinking to myself, WTF are you doing to your child getting them upset to the point of tears and nightmares over this .... geez let the child be a child ..... plenty of time for education in world politics later in High School