9/11 pet peeves
(is it ok to have those? or am i a terrible person and a disrespectful American?)
ok well i know that's an odd thing to say but honestly it does bother me a bit that people feel that in tragedy we need to take a zillion photographs of people's heartache, give these people a break they're watching a building tumble down and ur shooting a roll of film? do u have a heart? and to post those terrible pictures all over the internet, news, newspaper, magazines, etc. i realize ur trying to get american's to feel the impact, but we're all so desensitized (thank you action movies) that all we see is pictures of blown up buildings..and often that doesn't register as out of the ordinary...it bothers me that people can't leave well enuf alone and just say, no we'll never forget but we didn't exactly bomb out all of afganistan and we're not going to...now we don't need to put all of our sad pictures to music and make everyone cry...i realize that some of these are neat to watch and heck i even think it's good to be reminded on the day and such, i'm not saying it's horrible to post these things, i did..but after a while u start to wonder why the people with the cameras weren't dragging people out of the buildings and why those videotaping weren't consoling the sobbing person they're getting footage of..it starts to make u hate the media more and more...i went to ground zero this summer, i saw the space, i read the plaques, and i took pictures at the fire house, i know where it all went down and i can see how horrible it all was...but new york's been rebuilt, and it doesn't look like it did those 4 years ago..people aren't still running the streets mad adn sobbing they've grown adn gotten stronger, tuffer in the face of evil..they have pulled together and bonded in a way that we californians have never seen... now about this hurricane situation...it breaks my heart to see the pictures yes, but why are these photographers taking pictures when they could be helping? are they eating? do they have fresh water? why the heck are they even there if they'r enot going to share what they have and why put people's greif out on tv, the internet etc, i mean can't they just sob in their own way? do they have to have it broadcast to the world? can't people consol thier families and clutch their suitcases for dear life and greive without everyone being in on it? it's horrible that people can't just leave well enuf alone...you wnat people to help, u give them options, u don't show them the devastation....and u know whats the worst...that poeple think bush isn't doing anything, i don't care what u think of bush he IS trying, whether he's a good president or not isn't the issue, he's doing the best he can....one of my campers from this summer talked to me about doing something for the hurricane and she was all "what do u think about bush letting all those poeople die" and i'm just sitting there gapping mouth going HUH? ur TEN what do u know about this? and how do u not see the releif efforts (so i informed her, turns out her dad's a bush-hater) u know it's not hard to see all the horrible things about tragedies, the tsunami, the hurricane, 9/11, the civil war...but it doesn't mean u have to disreguard all the efforts people made to make things better..i mean all the money raised to help and all the people that are risking their lives daily for others....it's really easy for people to blame others for not doing enuf, but really what are those people doing for the effort? nto that they're not doign anything but giving 50 bucks doesn't mean ur going to mississippi and building homes now does it? heck my dad and 4 of his buddies from church are heading to the south in november to help with the effort, if i didn't have school i'd go with them...it's not hard to take a week off work for a worthy cause and actually do something constructive...i know that people will disagree with me, and i'm not saying donating is bad AT ALL...i'm just saying don't put down the leaders of america if ur not doing anything either, i guarentee the man is trying
changedfish- never forget
(is it ok to have those? or am i a terrible person and a disrespectful American?)
ok well i know that's an odd thing to say but honestly it does bother me a bit that people feel that in tragedy we need to take a zillion photographs of people's heartache, give these people a break they're watching a building tumble down and ur shooting a roll of film? do u have a heart? and to post those terrible pictures all over the internet, news, newspaper, magazines, etc. i realize ur trying to get american's to feel the impact, but we're all so desensitized (thank you action movies) that all we see is pictures of blown up buildings..and often that doesn't register as out of the ordinary...it bothers me that people can't leave well enuf alone and just say, no we'll never forget but we didn't exactly bomb out all of afganistan and we're not going to...now we don't need to put all of our sad pictures to music and make everyone cry...i realize that some of these are neat to watch and heck i even think it's good to be reminded on the day and such, i'm not saying it's horrible to post these things, i did..but after a while u start to wonder why the people with the cameras weren't dragging people out of the buildings and why those videotaping weren't consoling the sobbing person they're getting footage of..it starts to make u hate the media more and more...i went to ground zero this summer, i saw the space, i read the plaques, and i took pictures at the fire house, i know where it all went down and i can see how horrible it all was...but new york's been rebuilt, and it doesn't look like it did those 4 years ago..people aren't still running the streets mad adn sobbing they've grown adn gotten stronger, tuffer in the face of evil..they have pulled together and bonded in a way that we californians have never seen... now about this hurricane situation...it breaks my heart to see the pictures yes, but why are these photographers taking pictures when they could be helping? are they eating? do they have fresh water? why the heck are they even there if they'r enot going to share what they have and why put people's greif out on tv, the internet etc, i mean can't they just sob in their own way? do they have to have it broadcast to the world? can't people consol thier families and clutch their suitcases for dear life and greive without everyone being in on it? it's horrible that people can't just leave well enuf alone...you wnat people to help, u give them options, u don't show them the devastation....and u know whats the worst...that poeple think bush isn't doing anything, i don't care what u think of bush he IS trying, whether he's a good president or not isn't the issue, he's doing the best he can....one of my campers from this summer talked to me about doing something for the hurricane and she was all "what do u think about bush letting all those poeople die" and i'm just sitting there gapping mouth going HUH? ur TEN what do u know about this? and how do u not see the releif efforts (so i informed her, turns out her dad's a bush-hater) u know it's not hard to see all the horrible things about tragedies, the tsunami, the hurricane, 9/11, the civil war...but it doesn't mean u have to disreguard all the efforts people made to make things better..i mean all the money raised to help and all the people that are risking their lives daily for others....it's really easy for people to blame others for not doing enuf, but really what are those people doing for the effort? nto that they're not doign anything but giving 50 bucks doesn't mean ur going to mississippi and building homes now does it? heck my dad and 4 of his buddies from church are heading to the south in november to help with the effort, if i didn't have school i'd go with them...it's not hard to take a week off work for a worthy cause and actually do something constructive...i know that people will disagree with me, and i'm not saying donating is bad AT ALL...i'm just saying don't put down the leaders of america if ur not doing anything either, i guarentee the man is trying
changedfish- never forget
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