annik said:
I wouldn't say I agreed with the coverage. It verged on ghoulish. It was already an unthinkably horrific act and didn't need all the ways they seemed to be drumming home how poignant it was. The modern media is awful in that way.
I agree totally. I have a visceral reaction whenever I see the planes slamming into the WTC and the towers collapsing. I think of the lives ending at that moment and I always turn the channel or turn the tv off. But the past few days I've watched a few shows about the survivors of 9/11, if only to keep my silent promise to "never forget".
I flew a few months after 9/11 and remember thinking maybe I shouldn't get on an airplane and maybe it wasn't safe. But then I thought the terrorists would win if I cancelled my travel plans. When I flew, I watched the other passengers to make sure no funny stuff went on.
I was angry but said nothing in the airport when a security agent hand-searched my luggage but didn't bother to check one of the side pockets. I could have hidden plastic explosives in there and she didn't even do a thorough search. Then I was scared on the plane when a flight attendant angrily got on the loudspeaker and said that was the 3rd time she said not to form a line waiting for the bathroom near the cockpit.
I still watch the other passengers carefully when I get on a plane these days.
Teresa