I don't expect an entire show dedicated to 9/11, but a small segment would have sufficed. At least acknowledgement of the event, even if it was a five-minute piece. I think we can all go without listening about the breast implants of someone we don't even care about.
Really, we need another reason to hate the Kardashian species like we need another hole in our head anyway.
Maybe if it wasn't about Jenner - her IMPLANTS for that matter - everyone wouldn't be AS offended. But hey, maybe the silver lining is this will send the message to the media: no one gives a flying fink about the Kardashians, or anyone/anything like them for that matter, so stop putting this BS on TV.
Yes, Kris Jenner is not as important as 9/11.
But let's be real, how many of you were actually silent?
The point is: we have to move on at some point. True, we won't forget. But to let the wound fester like we have, reminding ourselves every year, over and over again? That isn't healing. That's poking at a wound till it gets infected with gangrene.
Granted, the first time they didn't observe 9/11 fully should have been for something far more important than Kris Jenner. I'd have gone with some other pressing news.
I'm not trying to justify my reasoning - because I don't need to do that, but I want you to know why I feel so strongly on this issue. I was born and raised in Oklahoma City. I was in the 7th grade when the bombing happened in 1995. We lost a lot of friends of the family that day who worked for the ATF plus countless other innocents. My father worked for the state as a criminalist at the time and was assigned with collecting evidence from the site - from the survivors, from the dead and from what was left of the building.
Our community came together and supported every single one of the families affected. They still do, to this day. In fact, the coach of the OKC Thunder makes it a point to take the players to the bombing memorial every year so that they can remember who they represent. It doesn't define OKC but it is the foundation on which the city grows and prospers.
Maybe my views are skewed because I had to watch my father deal with the loss of his friends but at the same time, not be able to grieve because he had a job to do. Maybe they are skewed because I am from a community that chooses to remember what happened in our...
I'm not trying to justify my reasoning - because I don't need to do that, but I want you to know why I feel so strongly on this issue. I was born and raised in Oklahoma City. I was in the 7th grade when the bombing happened in 1995. We lost a lot of friends of the family that day who worked for the ATF plus countless other innocents. My father worked for the state as a criminalist at the time and was assigned with collecting evidence from the site - from the survivors, from the dead and from what was left of the building.
Our community came together and supported every single one of the families affected. They still do, to this day. In fact, the coach of the OKC Thunder makes it a point to take the players to the bombing memorial every year so that they can remember who they represent. It doesn't define OKC but it is the foundation on which the city grows and prospers.
Maybe my views are skewed because I had to watch my father deal with the loss of his friends but at the same time, not be able to grieve because he had a job to do. Maybe they are skewed because I am from a community that chooses to remember what happened in our city and use that to become even stronger. Or maybe it's just because I'm a mother and I want my children to learn compassion and that even though some people have forgotten their past, that they don't have to.
We live in a time where bad things happen and I don't think that anything good can come of forgetting our past. I'm not saying that NBC should have devoted the entire day to remembrance, I'm just saying that a minute of air-time would not have hurt them.
I think much of my mentality is coming from seeing this every day. True, I don't go into NYC *every* day, but I go in often enough, and I live close enough to the city to honestly view this constant reminder not as something helping us get stronger, but something holding us back.
We're using it, at least from my view on it, as a way to remain stuck on the hurt, rather than becoming stronger. Perhaps this will change when the Freedom Tower is finally finished. I'm not holding my breath.
NYC bonded together during the crisis, but it's not a city that does well when injuries like that are allowed to fester. And this IS festering.
NBC's choice to ignore the moment of silence isn't exactly one I condone. And I certainly don't like HOW they ignored it. However, I fully understand the desire to 'move on' past the injury and let it scab over instead of picking at it again. And it does pick at it, at least here. Obviously, OKC and NYC deal with wounds differently, and I stand corrected in that aspect of this.
And you ARE right - a minute of airtime wouldn't have hurt anyone. But eventually that, too, will have to end. While many, like yourself, observ...
I think much of my mentality is coming from seeing this every day. True, I don't go into NYC *every* day, but I go in often enough, and I live close enough to the city to honestly view this constant reminder not as something helping us get stronger, but something holding us back.
We're using it, at least from my view on it, as a way to remain stuck on the hurt, rather than becoming stronger. Perhaps this will change when the Freedom Tower is finally finished. I'm not holding my breath.
NYC bonded together during the crisis, but it's not a city that does well when injuries like that are allowed to fester. And this IS festering.
NBC's choice to ignore the moment of silence isn't exactly one I condone. And I certainly don't like HOW they ignored it. However, I fully understand the desire to 'move on' past the injury and let it scab over instead of picking at it again. And it does pick at it, at least here. Obviously, OKC and NYC deal with wounds differently, and I stand corrected in that aspect of this.
And you ARE right - a minute of airtime wouldn't have hurt anyone. But eventually that, too, will have to end. While many, like yourself, observe December 7th - how long was it before it ceased to be a national day of mourning? Before news stopped being reported on it each anniversary? The last few years, a FEW news stations mention it - but only a few. The History Channel seems to be the main channel to cover the events. Few others even give it a little nod of acknowledgement.
Eventually, 9/11 will become like December 7th. Not forgotten, but not as big a deal as it was. Part of me is sad for this fact. But another part is glad - because lingering on painful memories tends not to let it heal, and doesn't let the future generations to move past it, either.
Again, perhaps it's different where you are, and if that works for your city, and your area, then great.
But I don't see it that way for NYC. To me, it's that festering wound, repeatedly poked.
All I know is how we responded to a tragedy and while overcoming it, we have never forgotten. There are still moments of silence in schools, there is still a big memorial service and people still talk about it - even after 17 years.
I guess I just can't wrap my head around not honoring those poor people. That's it. But thanks for the interesting convo ... food for thought, definitely!
I can understand both sentiments, to be honest, and why a group of people might need one or the other.
I guarantee 9 out of 10 wont know.. 9/11 was this generations Pearl Harbor. I would bet half the kids in middle school have no idea what 9/11 refers to..
Liberal Logic, If you don't teach it, It never happened.
Kardashian crapola and NBC has no shame.