9-11

[Barbara Moulton]

I saw that one news station (I think CNN) is going to replay their coverage of September 11, 2001 in "real time" this coming Monday.

In other words, if I so choose, I could live the horror of that day all over again.

I really have to wonder what the value is in this? What am I missing?

I had to take medication to help me sleep for several weeks after 9-11, because of the images of people jumping from the building that haunted my memories.

Do I want to watch that all over again?

Not at all.

Am I alone in feeling this?

[Adam Spriggs]

It's all about the R-A-T-I-N-G-S.

[Dana Grant]

I saw that one news station (I think CNN) is going to replay their coverage of September 11, 2001 in "real time" this coming Monday.

In other words, if I so choose, I could live the horror of that day all over again.

I really have to wonder what the value is in this? What am I missing?

I had to take medication to help me sleep for several weeks after 9-11, because of the images of people jumping from the building that haunted my memories.

Do I want to watch that all over again?

Not at all.

Am I alone in feeling this?

Uhhh, no you are not alone. I saw that they were doing that, and I thought the same things. I can see replaying "clips" here and there while they talk about it, because you know they will talk and talk and talk about it, but I don't see the benefit in living the full day all over again. No.

[Cindi Hammons]

The first time was bad enough. Clips? Okay...but to relive the whole day again? No thanks.

[Gina Stevenson]

I saw that one news station (I think CNN) is going to replay their coverage of September 11, 2001 in "real time" this coming Monday ...........................

Do I want to watch that all over again?

Not at all.

Am I alone in feeling this?

NO, ma'am! In fact, I couldn't see any value in making a full-length feature film about it and showing it in the movie theatres. Wanted nothing to do with it; previews were bad enough ..................... I remember it well enough from the first time; if I had CNN (no cable here), I'd definitely not want to watch it again! :basic04

[Billy Cox]

I saw that one news station (I think CNN) is going to replay their coverage of September 11, 2001 in "real time" this coming Monday.

In other words, if I so choose, I could live the horror of that day all over again.

I really have to wonder what the value is in this? What am I missing?

I had to take medication to help me sleep for several weeks after 9-11, because of the images of people jumping from the building that haunted my memories.

Do I want to watch that all over again?

Not at all.

Am I alone in feeling this?

It might be interesting to watch how the story unfolds, kind of like reading a diary from five years ago.

[Barb Bouldrey]

People like sensationalism. To many, the replay of that day will be like watching a rerun of a movie.

Why do people like all the violence in movies today and all the horror movies? Same reason: sensationalism.

I imagine all the rescue workers who survived will not want to watch. And relatives of anyone lost or traumatized that day cannot endure watching.

I cannot even watch the movie about Flight 93. It is still too real.

Barb

[Joel Merrill]

I couldn't go to work for a week after the attack because it effected my depression so much. I will not watch it. However, there are many who quickly forgot why we are fighting a war on terrorism who need to be reminded. I think it should be aired.

Joel

[Marsha Gupton]

9-11 really affected me, as it did most of the american public, and the world. I was glued to my tv for weeks. I finally realized that I was in a depression. I think for many people reliving it via CNN will be too traumatic. However, enough time has passed that the american public may have forgotten or may have gotten lax and forgetful. Perhaps, we need a reminder.

Now, I completely agree that the news media loves sensationalism and many of us take the hook on that. If it is all about ratings, I would really hate to be a business that boosts my ratings based on the most traumatic event that has affected this country in many years.

I remember pulling into the parking lot at work that morning and hearing that a plane had hit the trade center. I get up to my office on the 10th floor and some were huddled in the conference room with the tv on. It was then that I learned it was not just a "plane" that hit the trade center. As we are talking and standing there is shock, we see the second plane hit the trade center.

By the televised media and internet, we watched this as if we were there on the streets of New York City, at the Pentagon and in PA. It still gives me chills just to think about it.

I visited NYC briefly in October 2001 about a month after 9-11. All my life I had wanted to go to NYC and when on a road trip vacation, we were in the area, I just had to stop for a few hours. Nothing prepared me for what I saw. I saw people walking the streets with masks on to keep the debris out of their lungs. I saw shells of massive buildings. I saw make shift memorials. To say this was sobering would be an understatement. But what I also saw was the people of NYC actually being friendly. When I pulled into a service station in lower manhatten, the man hands me a US flag decal and says, welcome to the BIG APPLE! I'll never forget that.

Just some of my thoughts today. I may glimpse at CNN on 9-11, but there is no way I can sit there all day and relive that again.

[Judy Hamilton]

Over the years I have learned..mostly by default, what my emotions can and
cannot handle. Sometimes, really too often, I have not a choice..life
is just tossed in my face and I have to deal with the emotional trauma
the episode generates

If possible I will not watch the TV during this time, unless I am caught in a patient room.. Thanks for posting this thread.
so I am now aware of this program and will make every effort to
not view it

On the flip side, I aslo am in agreement with Joel that we do
forget too quickly and perhaps
a re-play of 9/11 will help us remember that there is still a great need to
concert our prayers and efforts on the demise of global terroism


Judy

[Garth Lahana]

I find it quite shocking that CNN is going to be doing something like this! As Adam said "It's all about the R-A-T-I-N-G-S.". They obviously have no regard for the people that will be pulled into the whole thing again. What about the families of the victims??? Do they need or want something like this?? America you need to heal, not have the pain of 9/11 thrown back in your face. On the other hand I do believe that something like this should not be forgotten, but I'm sure CNN could think of another way reminding us.

I also feel this should be a day to pray for the families of the victims; that they will not be pulled down into a pit of sadness again. I'm sure they had enough of that! Prayer also for peace between peoples of different cultures and faiths, would also not be a bad idea.

Garth

[Bruce Carriker]

I saw that one news station (I think CNN) is going to replay their coverage of September 11, 2001 in "real time" this coming Monday.

In other words, if I so choose, I could live the horror of that day all over again.

I really have to wonder what the value is in this? What am I missing?

I had to take medication to help me sleep for several weeks after 9-11, because of the images of people jumping from the building that haunted my memories.

Do I want to watch that all over again?

Not at all.

Am I alone in feeling this?


Barbara,

As Adam said, it's about RATINGS. If they didn't think people would watch it, they wouldn't do it. And the fact that people WILL watch it says far more about US, and our emotional/psychological sicknesses, than the fact that CNN (or whoever) is going to re-run the film footage of that day.

[Brad Mercer]

No, I won't be watching it. I haven't seen a 9/11 movie, either, no matter how good the critics said it was. I'm just not ready to re-live that, yet.

Brad

[Gina Stevenson]

I couldn't go to work for a week after the attack because it effected my depression so much. I will not watch it. However, there are many who quickly forgot why we are fighting a war on terrorism who need to be reminded. I think it should be aired.

Joel

Yeah, I guess perhaps it should be re-aired ... for those who sit here and vehemently claim that there's no reason for anyone to have gone anywhere ... but were we supposed to just let them keep coming ... and do it again somewhere else other than NYC? For instance, ma mutes the TV everytime the president comes on ... says she "can't stand the creep!" because "he's responsible for all those 2500 or more who died in Iraq!" and then adds how it was ridiculous for us to even have gone to war. Well, they started it ... we didn't.

Sad as it is, just can't imagine -- well, we perhaps can -- what would have happened if we'd sat back here and done absolutely nothing ... would they think us such pushovers that they'd have already struck a few other places right here in the US, too . . . ?? NO easy answers ... but I do see your point re re-airing it ... some like Ma might see it and then rethink about just what we were supposed to do other than nothing ..............

BTW, there's a poll -- sound familiar? ;) -- where one can, I guess, call or email and vote re whether we were actually in on the NYC twin towers thing so we could have "an excuse" to go to war (noticed it when walking by Ma's chair, peeking over her shoulder at the paper). Stopped to look, since I tho't it was so unbelievable! Broken up into male/female, black/white/hispanic, age-wise, etc, categories, it was, I believe, an average of about high 20's-30+% who were answering, "Yes." Come on!! Seems so hard to think that that many would suggest we'd kill gobs of our own people on purpose, to start a war ... talk about some folks having become (overly?) skeptical!

[Barbara Moulton]

Yeah, I guess perhaps it should be re-aired ... for those who sit here and vehemently claim that there's no reason for anyone to have gone anywhere ... Well, they started it ... we didn't.



Well, the reality is that Iraq didn't bomb the Towers so I wouldn't say that watching 9-11 would convince me of that war.

I do think there were valid reasons for going into Afghanistan and I support my country's presence there, even though the deaths of Canadian soldiers are putting pressure on our Prime Minister to withdraw our troops.

[Jim Franklin]

Some will watch out of morbid curiosity to see if it stirs within them the same feelings that it did five years ago. I hope in some way it stirs those who watch recognize that the war on terrorism is literally a fight for civilization as we know it against those who would put us into a Muslim type culture with women in head to toe wrapping and men having as many wives as they could afford. This war may take another 20-50 years or more before it is resolved and it won't be won by cutting and running for that is just what the Jihadists are depending on. I still believe President Bush was right then and is right now in pursuing the enemies of freedom wherever they can be found.

It has been reported that the ABC production of a six hour miniseries was researched to the point of virtually indicting the bc administration for not accepting Sudan's offer to turn over bin Laden and that the CBS production is so full of profanity that some station managers in the network are refusing to show it because they know it violates the new tougher rules of the FCC.

[Brian Hammons]

One of my student's Dad is in Iraq right now. He is a blackhawk chopper pilot. Andrew says he plans on watching it because he was a little young to fully comprehend the events of 9-11 when they happened, and he wants to try to understand more fully why his Dad has to be in Iraq.

[BobHunt]

Didnt they make a movie about this? Did I see it? No.

[Billy Cox]

I saw that one news station (I think CNN) is going to replay their coverage of September 11, 2001 in "real time" this coming Monday.

In other words, if I so choose, I could live the horror of that day all over again.

I really have to wonder what the value is in this? What am I missing?

I had to take medication to help me sleep for several weeks after 9-11, because of the images of people jumping from the building that haunted my memories.

Do I want to watch that all over again?

Not at all.

Am I alone in feeling this?


CNN is showing the events of 9/11 in real time only on their premium internet channel...not the TV channel.