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Good grief Tookey and Tami, do I need to chaperone you around the fora?
I remember watching the live coverage and how wearing but compelling it was. Now I think it's healthier to find a balance between remembering and obsessing. My impression is that these stations provided coverage all day so people could watch and remember at anytime and still partake in the rest of their lives - not so people would watch every ounce of coverage for hours on end.
It'd be wonderful if, in addition to remembering the tragedy of 9/11, the nation could remember the unity 9/11 engendered across the country and the world. I didn't see much of that kind of coverage available yesterday. IMO we need more reminders of what we can accomplish when we work together instead of reminders of why we should be angry.
Very good point. I usually watch the live coverage to hear friends' names called, but this year I didn't. I recorded to watch later in the day. I watched other programs that I recorded in the evening.
Good grief Tookey and Tami, do I need to chaperone you around the fora?
I remember watching the live coverage and how wearing but compelling it was. Now I think it's healthier to find a balance between remembering and obsessing. My impression is that these stations provided coverage all day so people could watch and remember at anytime and still partake in the rest of their lives - not so people would watch every ounce of coverage for hours on end.
It'd be wonderful if, in addition to remembering the tragedy of 9/11, the nation could remember the unity 9/11 engendered across the country and the world. I didn't see much of that kind of coverage available yesterday. IMO we need more reminders of what we can accomplish when we work together instead of reminders of why we should be angry.
Speaking for me I probably should have a chaperone just to keep me out of trouble. I do tend to bring the claws out once in a whileI agree with everything you said Toos.
Good grief Tookey and Tami, do I need to chaperone you around the fora?
I remember watching the live coverage and how wearing but compelling it was. Now I think it's healthier to find a balance between remembering and obsessing. My impression is that these stations provided coverage all day so people could watch and remember at anytime and still partake in the rest of their lives - not so people would watch every ounce of coverage for hours on end.
It'd be wonderful if, in addition to remembering the tragedy of 9/11, the nation could remember the unity 9/11 engendered across the country and the world. I didn't see much of that kind of coverage available yesterday. IMO we need more reminders of what we can accomplish when we work together instead of reminders of why we should be angry.
I agree. I vividly remember the number of American flags that were being flown it seemed everywhere in the weeks after 9/11. Unfortunately we all seem to be at each other's throats again, but at the time Americans (and those of us who love this country even if we're not REAL Americans yet) were so united.
ETA: I did watch some of the programming as my daughter had it on. I think it's a good idea to not forget. I'm sure there will be even more coverage next year on the 10th anniversary.
[quote=PKCorey;15855852]I watched/recorded most of them.
I never knew about the Marriott Hotel that was on site until yesterday on Hotel Ground Zero.
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I had never heard about that either. There are still stories out there that have not been told yet. I think it is important to preserve this information for subsequent generations as well.
I was pleased to have learned alot of things from watching the programming yesterday.
Related to 3 WT, I knew that the Marriott was originally built and opened as the Vista International (I used to be a vendor to Marriott and visited that location several times).
I didn't know the 93' bombing happened under the hotel, not the towers. Nor did I know that the south end of the hotel was fortified after the 93' bombing and that would save several lives 8 years later!
Good grief Tookey and Tami, do I need to chaperone you around the fora?
I remember watching the live coverage and how wearing but compelling it was. Now I think it's healthier to find a balance between remembering and obsessing. My impression is that these stations provided coverage all day so people could watch and remember at anytime and still partake in the rest of their lives - not so people would watch every ounce of coverage for hours on end.
It'd be wonderful if, in addition to remembering the tragedy of 9/11, the nation could remember the unity 9/11 engendered across the country and the world. I didn't see much of that kind of coverage available yesterday. IMO we need more reminders of what we can accomplish when we work together instead of reminders of why we should be angry.
Hey, toos! Indeed it did unite all of us. It showed how it could be if we just would stop the hate or whatever it is that makes us the way we are! No, I did not see much coverage of people helping people except for a few miliseconds of a camcorder catching it on 102 Minutes. I wish we, as a world, could unite to blow the insurgents off the face of the map.
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Speaking for me I probably should have a chaperone just to keep me out of trouble. I do tend to bring the claws out once in a whileI agree with everything you said Toos.
Hee-hee, tookey, me too when I am passionate about something! Guess toos will have to be the rose between two thorns!
I never heard about the Marriott either until last night!
Sorry to hear you had some friends that died that terrible day, NYC. My condolences.
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Last year my youngest son was 17. For the first time, he actually watched the whole event in real time (MSNBC). He understood it in a new maturity and it left a profound impact on him in terms of understanding great honor, courage and sacrifice, especially Flight 93.
So maybe showing this year after year is also a good way for future generations to experience what so many of us actually lived through.
We have so many young people today who even though they learn history in school, really don't grasp all the decades of struggles we have faced in America. This lessens their appreciation of the masses of people who have shed blood and lost their life because their country meant something special to them. It is always important that new generations understand.
I watched 3 or 4 of the History Channel shows on September 11. The unique one was the one on the people in the Marriott. I had not heard that story before. Also interesting was the one that used video from amateur video recorders. It's so sad and so hard to watch and yet I feel compelled to do it.
I knew the Marriott was there and destroyed, but didn't know that there were people still in it. I thought it had been evacated by the time the South Tower fell. Some people don't know that a church was destroyed as well.
I am guessing that nationwide coverage may trickle off after the 10th anniversary. I think it would be carried on at least one nationwide network forever. As GloryB wrote, we need to keep history alive.
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I agree with everything you said Toos. 
