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I think I was finishing putting together some clips for a client, TV was on as always (I rarely watch it but something is always being recorded from it). I happen to glance over and see them talking about a building getting hit by a missile (I think that?s what they said). Watched just as the second tower got hit by the plane. At this point it was a pretty morbid feeling I was having. I didn?t really feel sadness per say, more like a ?shit happens? sorta feeling.
Then the third plane struck the Pentagon. Not quite sure what my feelings were then, if they were anger, disbelief, or what. All that kept going through my mind was ?what the FUCK??. I have no idea how or why the plane was not shot down by the Pentagon. ?Where are the fucking lasers? Where are the SHIELDS??. Yeah, that?s over exaggerated, but for the Pentagon to get struck that?s all that kept going through my mind is why wasn?t the plane destroyed?
It was a really shitty day at work afterwards, eventually boss let us all go home and told us to pray (he was positive they had a nuke planted somewhere in the states and were going to detonate it later that day). And yet that thought of WHY still remained, and remains to this day. The White House has some AA equipment. The Pentagon.. doesn?t? One of the major nerve centers of our country is essentially powerless..? I was awestruck and still am.
THEN fast forward five years later. Has anything changed? Airport security is still abysmal (and yet they still practice scare tactics to make you think their shit is working), the twin towers STILL haven?t been rebuilt after five years (they haven?t even started!)? it?s still a very shitty feeling I get thinking about 9-11, with so many questions still left unanswered and a government whose ineptness CONTINUES to grow (Katrina). It sucks =\
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