Watched CNN coverage from 9/11/2001

[Billy Cox]

It's kind of a weird thing to watch old footage unfolding. Listening to the commentators speculating about what was going on early on, and then the struggle to separate fact from rumor. The level of confusion was striking.

[Belinda Y. Edwards]

i'm watching it, too.
i didn't want to - i have fought this rememberance thing in my heart.

But, i see that i needed this - -it hurts - my stomach is hurting.

We can't forget.

To know that a lot of it was planned within 7 miles of me - -

oh .....my stomach.

[Barbara Moulton]

OK...after my posts about the whole thing I actually did watch it for awhile this morning because I realized that I had never seen how it was when the bad news just kept multiplying, how people were reacting in the moment etc. I was at work the day of the attacks and we only had radio, no TV to watch. I saw edited replays when I got home in the evening.

An hour and a half was all I watched today, just until the second tower fell, but I found it brought me some peace to see some of the footage. I can't explain why but it did.

So...I take back all I said about CNN doing this.

Blessings,
Barbara

[Dennis M. Scott]

OK...after my posts about the whole thing I actually did watch it for awhile this morning because I realized that I had never seen how it was when the bad news just kept multiplying, how people were reacting in the moment etc. I was at work the day of the attacks and we only had radio, no TV to watch. I saw edited replays when I got home in the evening.

An hour and a half was all I watched today, just until the second tower fell, but I found it brought me some peace to see some of the footage. I can't explain why but it did.

So...I take back all I said about CNN doing this.

Blessings,
Barbara

I'm wondering too, about the effects of watching it replay. Last evening we watched the documentary 9/11 which was filmed actually from inside the tower ground floor. We had seen it about three years ago, and so started to not watch it. We wound up facinated, however, and watched the entire thing. Afterward I found it to have been healthy, and noticed it brought a peace of mind. Where are the psychologists when you need them?

[Barbara Moulton]

Afterward I found it to have been healthy, and noticed it brought a peace of mind. Where are the psychologists when you need them?

Thanks for these words. When I posted that I felt peaceful after watching those events, I thought some people might think I was insensitive to the pain of that day.

But maybe, as I watched it and heard all the speculation and fear of that day, it helped me to realize that, although there has been consequences from 9-11, God has been faithful.

[Bruce Carriker]

I avoided TV as much as possible yesterday, and last night I rented a couple of DVD's from Blockbuster.

Was equally saddened in this AM's coverage to see President Bush attempted to link 9/11 to the war in Iraq; AND by the Democrats attempts to demonize him for doing so. Sometimes the best thing to do is say nothing.

It only took Lincoln ten paragraphs...272 words...to immortalize the sacrifice at Gettysburg. Today's politicians, of both stripes, could learn something from Honest Abe.