QUOTE(sparkofcreation @ Aug 10 2006, 03:18 AM)

Lord no ... I started crying hysterically just from watching the trailer. Maybe in a few decades, on DVD.
It's been a bit weird being across the country now ... there's more of a tendency to think of it as something people saw on TV. I grew up seeing the Twin Towers outside my bedroom window, so it's a little more real to me, I think. Thank God I didn't know anyone who died, but I knew a lot of people who had near misses or who did know someone who died.
Similar here... I live on Long Island, about an hour east from the city. Nearly EVERYone in my high school knew someone that was killed there, or who was nearly killed there. We had a big scare with my dad, who was out there at the time. It was added terror because if something ELSE happened, we couldn't evacuate the island! The ONLY way off this island is bridges and tunnels through the city... flying... or taking a ferry to Connecticut. With so many people on this island boats wouldn't be able to take us all, and there was no way we'd get on a plane after that happened. We were trapped.
So believe me, that horror is ingrained into my head pretty well. I can remember without watching the tradgedy and re-playing events, depressing and scaring myself over again as I'm still stuck on this island with the fear that, again, something could happen and I wouldn't be able to evacuate. I can't WAIT til my fiance is here, we clear the immigration hurdles, we save enough money, and we re-locate to Virginia!
So, that's my opinion. Remembering, for me, doesn't mean replaying tragic events over and over.