This blog is only two days old and I’ve already gotten someone upset enough to respond to my post! This is exactly why I wanted to get into this whole blogging thing (not to upset people as such, but to get them to respond in some way). Here’s what a reader in Woodinville had to say about my August 30 post:
“WOW, How irresponsible of you to think this way. It's as if you live in a different country than I do. What happened on Sept 11, 2001 was a VERY personal attack on each and every American in this land! The terrorists didn't pick NYC, they picked the USA! Do you believe that the attack on Pearl Harbor was just an attack on Hawaii? If so then you probably think that only the people who lived there had a vested interest in extracting revenge? So why did we declare war on Japan?”
In response to this I will only say that I agree wholeheartedly with this reader (for his first 49 words that is). The terrorists that attacked on 9/11 were not attacking New Yorkers; they were attacking the American ideals that were represented in the World Trade Center. However, I will stand by what I said in my earlier posting, that there are some New Yorkers for which 9/11 was not just an attack on the US, but an attack on their own families and loved ones. For them, it is much more personal than it is for me or for our reader in Woodinville.
One more thing: please do not confuse 9/11 with Pearl Harbor. They are two different events that took place within completely different historical contexts; to make the analogy is inaccurate, and to assume that the way I feel about one equates to the other is wrong.
And as Ruben Bolling says this week about the Republicans in New York City: “We came, we shamelessly evoked the specter of 9/11, we left.”
To the reader in Woodinville: thank you for responding, your input is appreciated.
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