In the decade since September 11, 2001, thousands of survivors have walked the difficult path of recovery. After the World Trade Center terrorist attacks that unfolded in New York, close to 12,000 people emerged from the twin towers alive. Some of them moved forward anchored by faith, fortitude, or family. Others struggle with a healing process that remains painful, drawn out, and elusive.
How can we forget this day?
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and I have little to say, other than to honor the people who lost their lives in that tragedy. It’s been 10 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, something we all pause to reflect. Such horrible acts of violence are absurd. If we try to make sense of them by putting them into some sort of explanation, but at the end of the day, there’s little sense to killing thousands of innocent lives. And there is no answer to it.
And many of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news of these terrorist attacks on America. It was a shocking day for me. I was not old enough to understand the politics, but was at the age to understand what was happening, and the significance of the day. As we turned on the television, like the rest of the world, we were stunned by the events unfolding before our eyes. I was instantaneously overwhelmed by a mix of emotions I couldn't immediately process - shock, sadness, confusion, anger, fear.
'Did that really happen? That was the instant thought strikes my mind. It looks like a catastrophic scene in the Hollywood movies that more than often was seen picturize close to reality! In fact, many survivors witnessed the ghastly sight was as if hallucinating.
I recalled one of the survivors saying, "This is a day that will change your lives forever." Little did I know what she actually meant? Not only was America forever changed that day, but the worlds’ perception on the extremist group, its teaching and also their purpose of waging war against America. America is one of the world’s greatest countries with great technological advancement and practice laissez-faire thinking. Or else one would not have seen a Hindu, Japanese, Muslim, or even a Jew to be living as expatriate there with a reputable profession! It’s a selfish act to me.
It has been ten years now since the tragic and deadly attacks on the world trade center WTC in New York, and still it feels as if it was just yesterday it happened. No matter how many times we talk about it and yet we fail to understand, why did it happened? It simply tells us that the truth behind 9/11 has not yet been reached.
Today, we’d like to remember those lost in the terrorist attacks, the families that have suffered, and a nation that’s torn over this tremendous act of hatred. Whatever your political beliefs may be, we’d like to encourage each and every one of you to take a moment and remember what happened to US a few short years ago could happen to any other countries. With this in mind, I am ashamed with some prominent Malaysian bigwig being heartless in giving a piece of their mind in conjunction with Remembering 9/11. If you got nothing nice to say, please do not say it at all. It is very senseless to say that World Trade Centre’s twin towers came down nicely upon themselves and it looked more like a planned demolition than a collapse? Is it possible for our own government to strategize such conspiration in future? (The idea is spoken out loud & clear. This raised my eyebrow in doubt...I will be tight-lipped as it appears evident to me...Do you? ) Wait till someone lashes back to us when something horrible like this befalls upon us. It’s easy to shoot unkind remarks.
Thumbs up to ASTRO for lining up back-to-back programme as a tribute to remember the fateful day that changed the world for better or worse for which I don’t have an answer to it. I put everything else on hold as I was glued to my couch and my eyes welled up with tears feeling the pain, anger and sadness of fellow Americans on that day. Listening to shaky voice of survivors and victims’ families whom described the nightmarish experience was enough to make me understand that the pain is far from over. It was still there till now! For a person whom didn’t experienced it live, I was already in a rollercoaster of emotions, imagine those who lost their loved ones, wife who was separated from husbands, husbands lost their love of their life, mother, father, brothers and sisters even to the innocent children. One thing was definite; the tragedy brought the onset of a new sense of consciousness.
At the end of the programme, one thing was clearly understood; Ten years after 9/11, the survivors & victims have not healed—and the wounds still remain fresh! Only God will guide them through the void space for a new beginning.
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