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Are things "different" after 9/11?
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This feature is taken from E.A.9.11, Group 5.
See the entire discussion: Does anyone feel "different" after 9/11?.
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a.j |
06:37pm Mar 21, 2002 EST |
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Does anyone living in New York feel "different"? Does anyone in the United States feel "different"? How is the feeling in other parts of the world?
I live in West Virginia. I can't say we really feel afraid. But we are greatly changed by this whole thing.
A lot of school trips to large cities (NYC, D.C., Chicago) were postponed and everyone is afraid to fly.
We aren't afraid to go out of our houses or anything but we are all very aware of strangers especially at school and in places where you wouldn't expect them.
I live in upstate New York, like 8 hours from the city. Life changed for a while right after it happened. My Dad works at an airport, which is mostly for just private planes, and they had to close it down to people taking off and landing for a while, which was weird, not hearing the planes landing from school. Also, for a while, helicopters and F-14's kept flying over my town, which was ALSO weird.
Things have gone back to normal, though. I'll go through almost an entire day without thinking about Sept. 11th, and then at night, or something, I'll hear about it on the news and it kind of hits you, and everything comes back. It's almost like nothing happened, though. I wasn't personally touched by it; I didn't lose any friends or family members; I didn't know anyone who died. Nobody I know lost anybody in there.
I'm from Canada... It's not just Americans that are really being affected by the whole Sept.11 terrorist attacks. It certainly frightened me! I have a lot of relatives in the states, in fact my cousin was supposed to be at the Pentagon that very day, but couldn't make it in. I really believe God was there, even if all we really saw was evilness.
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andrew |
10:25am Mar 22, 2002 EST |
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I live in Manhattan, have lived here all my life. I am not afraid to continue to live here. I have friends who go to Sty, that's the massive public school about two blocks from the WTC, who were evacuated as the first tower fell, and ran from the dust cloud up the West Side Highway. Even they are back to almost normal. They arenít afraid, the still go to school. They say the thing that is really freaky is having the sun creep into the classroom where it used to be blocked by the towers.
Things have changed somewhat the only noticeable different on a daily basis is that I always catch myself looking at airplanes wondering if they are flying high enough.
What really gets under my skin is school groups or tours that were going to go to NYC and postponed or canceled them. What that says is that I live in imminent danger every day. It doesnít feel like that, and that is not the way it is. Also NYC really needs the tourists.
My high school's senior class had a trip scheduled for a week after sept. 11th for their senior trip to go to NYC. They were going to stay in some hotel or something right near where it happened, too. They canceled the trip because of our superintendent (WHO I HATE) because he said "no trips to large cities". They were going to go to Chicago instead but he said no. They don't even get a senior trip because he put it off for so long that now, even though our trips are reinstated, they can't go anymore. I think that's really stupid, because with the new safety things, it's not likely to happen again, especially this soon.
*I might be coming to NYC this summer---my Mom thinks it would be good for my brother and I to see what happened, because it's almost like it never did for most of the people where I live, because things are so... Normal again.*
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Sergei |
07:19pm Mar 24, 2002 EST |
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Since this question is up here, I will have to answer.
My answer is no. I do not feel different at all. My life has not changed. Fear? Hardly. I know my town is never going to be decimated. Even when I go to New York I doubt that a repeat attack is going to occur. And now this attack could alter anyone's values, other than the degree of esteem they hold for firefighters, puzzles me.
Yes, I know you were interested in the responses that say yes. But at the same time, I have the feeling that if I didn't respond, you'd think I was neglecting the thread or something and didn't care enough to post. So there I am. I've posted.
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