How have the 9/11 attacks [b]personally[/b] affected you?

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

I have a bro-in-law that is the S-2 for the 2/153rd Infantry (I left Co. A of the 2/153rd Inf. in '99). After the attacks, the entire 2nd battalion was activated to go to Sinai (Egypt) as a part of the MFO rotations (9 month tour). It was the first time that the entire operation was handed over to National Guard troops and thus far they are doing a great job (as I knew the 2nd battalion would). But to know that my family, whether through blood or affiliation, is over in that region serving our nation makes me appreciate them even more.

Since my bro-in-law has left, it has been hard on his kids and wife... I have had to kind of step up and act as dad sometimes for his kids. That has been both rewarding as saddening. His children miss him greatly.

Here is their website. I encourage you to sign the guestbook and let them know that they are appreciated.

The pics of the guys in Co. A are weird for me... I know most of them and have for over 10 years. Somehow, it is odd seeing men that you served with, and now with the events that have taken place, should still be serving with. Upon their return, I plan to return and finish what I started when I enlisted 12 years ago. I do take my blessings as they come though.. If I hadn't been out at the time of the attacks I wouldn't have a baby girl on the way in August.

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

 

[gopunk]

Its the ones that didn't cry I worry about.

you know, different people having different ways of experiencing and handling situations, as well as expressing their emotions. doesn't mean there's something wrong with them

 

[pyonir]

<< Its the ones that didn't cry I worry about.

you know, different people having different ways of experiencing and handling situations, as well as expressing their emotions. >>


musta missed Tex's post the first time, i tend to do that with him.

i didn't cry. didn't mean i wasn't feeling terrible inside and shocked, but i knew no one in the areas so crying was not an emotion that came out. just general disbelief and shock.

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

<< Its the ones that didn't cry I worry about.

you know, different people having different ways of experiencing and handling situations, as well as expressing their emotions. doesn't mean there's something wrong with them >>



Very true... I am not a person to cry. It's not that I don't feel the emotion of something like this... I do. It's just that I have my own way of dealing with things.

 

[Texmaster]

<< you know, different people having different ways of experiencing and handling situations, as well as expressing their emotions. doesn't mean there's something wrong with them >>



This is true. This just hit very close to home with me and thats my POV.

 

[pyonir]

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<< you know, different people having different ways of experiencing and handling situations, as well as expressing their emotions. doesn't mean there's something wrong with them >>



This is true. This just hit very close to home with me and thats my POV. >>


Completely understandable from your POV Tex.

 

[Texmaster]

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Completely understandable from your POV Tex. >>



Thanks. I didn't mean to offend anyone, I was just understanding where 308nato was coming from.

 

[gopunk]

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Completely understandable from your POV Tex. >>



Thanks. I didn't mean to offend anyone, I was just understanding where 308nato was coming from. >>



no offense taken... i'm just sensitive to these types of things because i typically don't cry in the event of a tragedy, and i've had quite a few people suggest there's something wrong with me

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

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Completely understandable from your POV Tex. >>



Thanks. I didn't mean to offend anyone, I was just understanding where 308nato was coming from. >>



no offense taken... i'm just sensitive to these types of things because i typically don't cry in the event of a tragedy, and i've had quite a few people suggest there's something wrong with me >>



Because I don't cry... my wife says that she thinks that I am dead inside. Not true, of course, just don't see the need in shedding tears. It hasn't solved anything for me in the past and I suspect that it never will.

 

[CraigRT]

It makes me angry on a regular basis.. angry towards crap like the Taliban.. sh!t like that in the world should be stopped..
other than that, it hasn't affected me in a personal way. I have no relatives in NYC at all, and I don't even know anyone who does.

 

[VTrider]

One of my childhood friends and neighbor, his wife was on one of those planes that left from Boston. When I found this out, it was pretty disturbing to me personally. This has definately changed my point of view regarding 9/11. You somehow feel more connected to all these events, it feels more personal, hits more at home I guess? She wasn't a close friend of mine, more of a friend of the family - the kind of aquaintence that pops in now and then during holidays and the such. She left behind her husband and a 2yr. old little girl.

-VTrider

 

[exp]

I also was not affected directly by the WTC attack. And off the top of my head the only change in my personal views that I can recall is the complete and instantaneous loss of sympathy for the Palestinians I experienced when that video of them dancing in the streets was released. Is it fair to judge an entire population on the actions of what may be a small minority? No, but I did it anyway and I know many other Americans reacted the same way.