Netzach
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Etoile said:Netzach, I'm not sure who your first paragraph was directed at, but I think you misunderstood what I meant. (I can't speak for what osg meant, of course.)
My dominant lives in NYC, and every time I go visit I stare at that empty space, too. I can't even figure out where downtown really is because everything is the same height now, and that hurts. I don't personally know anyone who was a victim at any location, but I don't think that's necessary to feel pain at what happened.
What I was referring to was a disappointment that when people speak of 9/11, they speak of NYC and the WTC. But every life that ended there is of equal value to those that ended in Arlington and Pennsylvania. I know more people were lost in New York, everybody knows that. But as a DC native, it hurts me that my city's pain is considered "less" than that of New Yorkers'. Is it because of how quickly the Pentagon was repaired? Is it because fewer people died there? Is it because fewer people worked in the Pentagon than in the WTC, so fewer residents of the city were directly affected? I simply don't understand why 9/11 has become about New York, when it was a day of terror across many millions of square miles. In expressing my frustration, I'm simply upset about not knowing why one city means more than another.
It just makes me sad. Is that not okay?
ghosst is right, and I was so not responding to you, I'm sorry if you thought that I was. The towers are just more personal to me as I grew up looking up at them just like the pentagon has a more personal connection to you. I agree that it's wrong that people only think about the one site.
