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| Dinah S. Ventura |
On cable in recent weeks was a special documentary on survivors of the 9/11 terror attack in New York. The few who were able to live through the trauma and anguish brought on by that cruel attack against the Western world still bear the emotional scars, their physical wounds long healed.
For us, in this side of the world, who watched slack-jawed as it was happening real-time as flashed worldwide by CNN, the agony felt real, even though we were thousands of miles away. Some of us immediately thought of relatives or friends who may have been in the World Trade towers that day, frantically going through the names in our minds and then trying hard to discover their whereabouts at the time.
Today, years later, similar feelings of shock and concern arise whenever the memory is retraced. Such is the effect of that humongous act — a permanent scar in the form of fear that whenever “jihad,” “rebels,” or “terror alert” is mentioned, governments react — and fast!
That real-life drama is certainly more powerful than films based on real life situations. Although the latter presents events and issues in such a way that those that cannot bear to watch the news are forced to be aware of the truths out there couched in a more palatable form, one inescapable fact remains: Truth is truth no matter how much fiction you infuse into it.
We have come to know this firsthand as a country..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101115com7.html
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