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4dk:
I already said that it's just what I thought I would feel in a situation like this. It doesn't have to be true. Plus, in no way does it negate what other people said they felt. Why is it so important to you that, even hypothetically, I would feel the same way as you did? You don't really think that every single person who lived that day felt exactly as you did? People come from different places and social structures, have different characters, ways of coping, and whatever happens they see it through all they came from, and relate to evens differently. I lived through September 11, as you did, but I don't claim that I know how you felt or should have.
In that story about Pearl Harbor you used Naval veterans as an example. See, that's only one group of people, and a very specific at that. Not everyone felt exactly like them, did they?
I can offer you another example. I did live through some tumultuous times in my own country. I was a little kid, and for a few days I was being escorted to school, then I stopped going altogether. I stayed home with my sister and played with young men who were sleeping in my room -- when they weren't on the roof of our house with rifles in their hands, protecting us. Now I think those boys must've been, excuse me, shi**ing their pants. To me it all felt like holidays: no school, guests in the house, etc. A girl from my class lived a few minutes from us. Her father didn't work where mine did, though, and they didn't have anyone protecting their home. She later told me that some stupid neighbor told her that they would all be hanged, so she spent those days waiting in terror for some people to come and hang her whole family. We were the same age, going to the same class, and she's been my best friend for all those years, and still, our experience was totally different. And no matter how many people I asked how they felt at that time, they all told me different things.
One of the reasons why I doubt that everyone in the States felt exactly the same when JFK was killed. Maybe I'd have felt like you did, maybe I would've felt like I think I would in a situation like this. I don't know, but neither do you.
I already said that it's just what I thought I would feel in a situation like this. It doesn't have to be true. Plus, in no way does it negate what other people said they felt. Why is it so important to you that, even hypothetically, I would feel the same way as you did? You don't really think that every single person who lived that day felt exactly as you did? People come from different places and social structures, have different characters, ways of coping, and whatever happens they see it through all they came from, and relate to evens differently. I lived through September 11, as you did, but I don't claim that I know how you felt or should have.
In that story about Pearl Harbor you used Naval veterans as an example. See, that's only one group of people, and a very specific at that. Not everyone felt exactly like them, did they?
I can offer you another example. I did live through some tumultuous times in my own country. I was a little kid, and for a few days I was being escorted to school, then I stopped going altogether. I stayed home with my sister and played with young men who were sleeping in my room -- when they weren't on the roof of our house with rifles in their hands, protecting us. Now I think those boys must've been, excuse me, shi**ing their pants. To me it all felt like holidays: no school, guests in the house, etc. A girl from my class lived a few minutes from us. Her father didn't work where mine did, though, and they didn't have anyone protecting their home. She later told me that some stupid neighbor told her that they would all be hanged, so she spent those days waiting in terror for some people to come and hang her whole family. We were the same age, going to the same class, and she's been my best friend for all those years, and still, our experience was totally different. And no matter how many people I asked how they felt at that time, they all told me different things.
One of the reasons why I doubt that everyone in the States felt exactly the same when JFK was killed. Maybe I'd have felt like you did, maybe I would've felt like I think I would in a situation like this. I don't know, but neither do you.
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