Photos of the Tragic Plane Crashes

[PigSoldier]

'pissoldier'?

Seems an unlikely spelling mistake.....

 

[MickeyMoose15]

DisJosh "accidentally" does that from time to time!

 

[DisJosh]

Sorry! Pigsoldier! I just noticed that! I assure you it was a typo!

 

[KingKobra]

Come on guys lets stop bickering about this..what does it solve? Everyone knows whats happened and weve all seen the pictures a million times but im sure mickeymoose didnt post them with any bad intentions. Remeber were here on he DIS...lets start acting like friends again!

 

[Musicprincess]

God Bless America

 

[MickeyMoose15]

I just felt that people wouldn't mind seeing them because it was shown so many times on TV.

 

[hulabird]

But you know what, the more we see them, the angrier we get and the closer we all
become, because we are all suffering together....I was just thinking how awful
it would be had this happened and they also took out all out media outlets, how would
it be if we couldn't see? If we couldn't find out what was going on every minute?
Because we can see, because we are informed and because we can see not only
the US but other countries feeling the same pain, the same outrage...i feel less scared
and closer to everyone in the nation....imagine if our media were knocked out and
all we had were newspapers...wouldn't that make u feel more scared? I am glad that I
can turn the tv on or off as I please, I am glad that I can get the info as it happens...
I WANT to stay informed...i would hate to wonder what was going on and what was going to
happen...because of the media, everyone was alerted to what was happening immediately and other cities such as Chicago where I live were able to evacuate the city and gear up for
a possible attack here....so while the pictures are sad and remind of the attrocity over and over again...it will make us stronger....and madder and we will get justice.


HUlabird

 

[PigSoldier]

Well....

I disagree with hulabird, but I think now's the wrong time to argue about it. I don't think we can reasonably debate any issues surrounding this tragedy at a time like this.

I was never really talking about MickeyMoose posting the pictures, just the media's attitude to them in general. I never meant anything personally in this thread (and I'm hoping I didn't come across that way).

And to echo KingKobra, let's just forget about it, and all be friends again.

(Re-reading that, I sound like the most hipocritical person ever. I'm aware I started all of this, and again, I hope there's no hard feelings.)

- Suzi

 

[hippiechick]

God Bless America

 

[MickeyMoose15]

The media has been stressing the pictures and the videos too much lately.

 

[Kiki]

Oh a lighter note, and speaking about typos, I was copying stuff down in S.S., I was saying the words as I was writing them. We were supposed to write 'organization/ central government' and instead of government I wrote quiz! I have no idea why! And then when I read it to my class, I said it the write way (government). then when I put my notebook down, my friend allison said, um why does it say organization/ central quiz? I had no idea that I put quiz!! It was Friday though, and I was really tired : p

 

[samster]

LOL KIKI!!!! I do that ALL the time!! I think moose was just trying to give us a little more information about this topic or something. I don't think this is the place i wanna see those pictures though. they're too sad and if i really wanna see them them i'll watch the news. its too sad to look at..even one week later

 

[Joe Cool]

Oof.

I just read this whole thing and...all i'm thinking is, it's kind of refreshing to have some normal (or quasi-normal, considering the circumstances) debate going on; it makes me feel like life goes on, no matter what those anal apertures do to our cities. Though...it's the twenty first century, ya, even nine months into the "real" one if yer one of <i>those</i> (heh)...almost everything is bound to be on videotape. They say the average urban human being gets videotaped 10 times a day. In 10 years I bet it'll be 100 times a day. Some think people are too image-conscious now...holy hell, just wait. I figured that the next big (bad) thing to happen, whenever it would, would be caught on video. Hey, those tapes taken from the streets of the first and second planes hitting looked like cuts from a Bruckheimer or Spielberg movie. Gaah. I mean, New York <i>is</i> the most photographed city I can think of. People's justifications for showing the pictures of what happened mostly have to do with stomach, and...our own willingness to come to terms with something no one should be completely prepared to deal with.

And...is it me, or do parts of the media seem to make it look like they attacked <i>all</i> of America, not just New York and the Pentagon? UPN had this patriotic promo thing on tonight, and they had the words "Attack On America", with some nondescript photography of various parts of New York and DC burning...without specifying what they were showing, as if to evoke the subliminal image that the damage is more...widespread. Hunh.

I knew three people who eyewitnessed the World Trade Center attack...one of them, my cousin Frank, worked in the NYSE. Whoa. He's OK, btw. The other two were several blocks away, one at Columbia and the other in her 23rd floor apartment. Another person I know lost a family member in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. Ya. My dad's buddy's son is in the Army, and will be shipping out soon...and can't tell anyone where or when he's going. To the people who think this is going to be a war like we fought in the twentieth century, I say how can we fight this enemy that way if we have rules...and they don't? This is a whole new ballgame. Pearl Harbor was a military target...and well, the Pentagon wasn't even their <i>primary</i> DC target. Kind of sobering, isn't it?

At home, here, where it IS safe, hard as it may be to believe...*rolls eyes*...this is America. We'll pull through. The hardest thing to think of is that no one had to die, but it happened. It's in the past. We gotta carry the afterthought through to the future, etc ad nauseum, but still. I listened to all the speeches and pundits and endless talk and...you know what? We actually have been through worse.

GBA (God bless America),

JC

 

[ShOrTiE2001]

I think those photos are sickening too......everytime I see them I get some horrible thought of what happened that day.......but I'm not mad at anyone fer posting them up there I just kind of ask that you don't post anymore of them ok?

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Let's try to put these photos behind us. It is now September 22nd and it is time to return to normal life now.

 

[Gabrielle]

There's nothing wrong with posting these pictures.

-Gabrielle

 

[MickeyMoose15]

Yet's all put this behind us....PLEASE!!!!!

 

[Meg]

<font color=blueviolet size=4>Very well said JC!!

Alrite, I agree w/Moose, this is in the past & we must move on (I'm not saying that we should forget... we just need to start to moving back into our normal lives again).

 

[mad_cheshire_cat]

In respect I think these piucture should be shown... we cannot stop what happened... we must learn from it and never ever let it happen... We are just morning peoples deaths.

 

[MickeyMoose15]

NOTE: Flags should return to full mast today in request of President Bush