Updoot. I will fail to upvote (wishing I could downvote) any photo of the towers burning.
On days of rememberance let us show what is being remembered, the buildings standing tall, the people in them going about their normal lives, while the fire houses are gathered for lunch or dinner and nothing awful is happening. It is the same with flags, we only show photos of them burning to make a brief and angry point, not to remember the country they symbolize and serve.
In 2001 digital video camera technology brought us hundreds of bystander videos that documented the event but technically were CRAP, which is why jerks like WebFairy and others assaulted the Internet with "missile pod" and "plane fakery" claims that reduced a somber occasion to ugly noise.
Even professional stabilized news footage of 9/11 was played endlessly for the emotional shock value for ratings... and because popularity does not necessarily follow quality or relevance, as the decades passed it was increasingly difficult to find some simple -- and wonderous -- recollection of the towers as a human achievement.
It is as if you are honoring a fallen hero but the only clips children ever see is the hero dying, the moment the bullet enters the chest, the death tremors. What kind of kid (and adult) results from that?
Even documentaries made after 9/11 suffer from announcers effecting that somber overacted voice that is trigger-warning you. These documentaries were respectful of the towers but... just like those movie cues where you know something bad is going to happen... it tainted the subject.
After 9/11 I went in search of THIS PARTICULAR 15-MINUTE 1983 PANY FILM I had seen before on television. It evoked the sense of wonder with no self-serving dramatized hints of mayhem and destruction. And the music is grand! This film is how I remember them.
Updoot. I will fail to upvote (wishing I could downvote) any photo of the towers burning.
On days of rememberance let us show what is being remembered, the buildings standing tall, the people in them going about their normal lives, while the fire houses are gathered for lunch or dinner and nothing awful is happening. It is the same with flags, we only show photos of them burning to make a brief and angry point, not to remember the country they symbolize and serve.
In 2001 digital video camera technology brought us hundreds of bystander videos that documented the event but technically were CRAP, which is why jerks like WebFairy and others assaulted the Internet with "missile pod" and "plane fakery" claims that reduced a somber occasion to ugly noise.
Even professional stabilized news footage of 9/11 was played endlessly for the emotional shock value for ratings... and because popularity does not necessarily follow quality or relevance, as the decade passed it was increasingly difficult to find some simple -- and wonderous -- recollection of the towers as a human achievement.
It is as if you are honoring a fallen hero but the only clips children ever see is the hero dying, the moment the bullet enters the chest, the death tremors. What kind of kid (and adult) results from that?
Even documentaries made after 9/11 suffer from announcers effecting that somber overacted voice that is trigger-warning you. These documentaries were respectful of the towers but... just like those movie cues where you know something bad is going to happen... it tainted the subject.
After 9/11 I went in search of THIS PARTICULAR 15-MINUTE 1983 PANY FILM I had seen before on television. It evoked the sense of wonder with no self-serving dramatized hints of mayhem and destruction. And the music is grand! This film is how I remember them.
Updoot. I will fail to upvote (wishing I could downvote) any photo of the towers burning.
On days of rememberance let us show what is being remembered, the buildings standing tall, the people in them going about their normal lives, while the fire houses are gathered for lunch or dinner and nothing awful is happening. It is the same with flags, we only show photos of them burning to make a brief and angry point, not to remember the country they symbolize and serve.
In 2001 digital video camera technology brought us hundreds of bystander videos that documented the event but technically were CRAP, which is why jerks like WebFairy and others assaulted the Internet with "missile pod" and "plane fakery" claims that reduced a somber occasion to ugly noise.
Even professional stabilized news footage of 9/11 was played endlessly for the emotional shock value for ratings... and because popularity does not necessarily follow quality or relevance, as the decade passed it was increasingly difficult to find some simple -- and wonderous -- recollection of the towers as a human achievement.
It is as if you are honoring a fallen hero but the only clips children ever see is the hero dying, the moment the bullet enters the chest, the death tremors. What kind of kid (and adult) results from that?
Even documentaries made after 9/11 suffer from announcers effecting that somber overacted voice that is trigger-warning you. These documentaries were respectful of the towers but... just like those movie cues where you know something bad is going to happen... it tainted the subject.
After 9/11 I went in search of THIS PARTICULAR 15-MINUTE 1983 PANY FILM I had seen before on television. It evoked the sense of wonder with no self-serving dramatized hints of mayhem and destruction. And the music is grand! This film is how I remember them.