Its understandable but interesting how the date effects people from different parts of the country, If your not from the tri state area of NY, NJ or Penn. Your perspective is a bit different. Because while it effected you as Americans. It still didnt happen in your back yard. The reality of it isnt as close
Here with most residents there is rarely more then 1 or 2 degrees of separation between yourself and someone who died or was there. And while even you may personally know or know of one. Most of us here knew or knew of several with rarely more then 1 degree of separation.
If your next door neighbors house burned down and everyone in it died. It would be a travesty to you and we would all agree it was a travesty. But fact of the matter is. While we may know of those people. we didnt know these people. After a while for us it would be. "Ok enough already.the house burned down and people died. Bad break for them." While for you it would still be personal.
Here. Most of us knew these people. It is personal. I knew those two fathers I mentioned above. zero degrees of separation.
Amen Dred........not saying that it doesnt hurt everyone in the country, its a deep wound for sure.....but how you worded it, and being from Pennsylvania, and working in a Region where all my co workers are all from NY (LI and Manhattan) and NJ... it is exactly how i feel...right or wrong
Thank you
