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<blockquote data-quote="Tiefling" data-source="post: 334764" data-attributes="member: 251"><p>At the time my family was living in a house on a little "farm" (in reality it was about 10 acres of pasture where a couple people boarded horses). I came inside around noon, hot and sweaty, after helping my sister groom her chesnut-colored Morgan-Quarterhorse cross, Wishbone, and sat down on the couch. My grandmother was visiting at the time, and she and my mother were chatting. My mother mentioned to me off-hand that two planes had crashed into the WTC (my brother had called from our other house, which had TV, and told her). I pressed her for details, of which she had few. I was pretty surprised, and I contemplated the possible responsible persons and the political ramifications for a few minutes. I dreaded the inevitable jingoism, bandwagon-patriotism and little American flag bumper stickers that were to come. Then I pretty much went on with my daily life, which in the summer involved vegetating.</p><p></p><p>Later that evening I got on the Net and filled myself in on everything. I was confused that so many people who were obviously completely removed from danger were so terrified. It seemed that a lot of people had lost their grip on reality. I kinda got to wondering why Americans were so angered by the deaths of 3000 people when most of them hadn't shed a tear to the million+ people who had starved to death in Afghanistan over the past few years, or the thousands upon thousands of people who die each year due to natural disasters in third-world countries.</p><p></p><p>September 11th was the day that I realized that to most of my countrymen, the lives of people from America are worth more than the lives of others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiefling, post: 334764, member: 251"] At the time my family was living in a house on a little "farm" (in reality it was about 10 acres of pasture where a couple people boarded horses). I came inside around noon, hot and sweaty, after helping my sister groom her chesnut-colored Morgan-Quarterhorse cross, Wishbone, and sat down on the couch. My grandmother was visiting at the time, and she and my mother were chatting. My mother mentioned to me off-hand that two planes had crashed into the WTC (my brother had called from our other house, which had TV, and told her). I pressed her for details, of which she had few. I was pretty surprised, and I contemplated the possible responsible persons and the political ramifications for a few minutes. I dreaded the inevitable jingoism, bandwagon-patriotism and little American flag bumper stickers that were to come. Then I pretty much went on with my daily life, which in the summer involved vegetating. Later that evening I got on the Net and filled myself in on everything. I was confused that so many people who were obviously completely removed from danger were so terrified. It seemed that a lot of people had lost their grip on reality. I kinda got to wondering why Americans were so angered by the deaths of 3000 people when most of them hadn't shed a tear to the million+ people who had starved to death in Afghanistan over the past few years, or the thousands upon thousands of people who die each year due to natural disasters in third-world countries. September 11th was the day that I realized that to most of my countrymen, the lives of people from America are worth more than the lives of others. [/QUOTE]
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