sharky
New Yorker
The sad thing about the Ground Zero 2002 t-shirts is that they had Ground Zero 2001 shirts being sold on the street corners in Lower Manhattan in September.
You won't understand what happened that day unless you were here and some so-called "Americans" need to deal with that, accept that and don't try and act like they have somehow been as deeply affected as those of us who were down there that day. They should consider themselves lucky they didn't have to be there. And its only going to get worse leading up to the one year anniversary which is going to make me even sicker to my stomach.
As for the whole FDNY, NYPD, PAPD etc. thing, several things
1) they weren't the only ones. There were construction workers and iron workers that started volunteering at 10:30am on Sept. 11, worked 24 hours a day rain or shine and cleaned up that pit ahead of schedule and under budget. And remember the EMS guys who also lost co-workers who were trying to help the injured. Just because the EMS workers don't have a special letter thing that looks good on a t-shirt doesn't mean they didn't lose people.
2) If I see a firefighter in NYC I walk by them with my head down. I still can't look those guys in the eye. How can you look someone in the eye that is willing to put their life on the line any day for you-- and that you never noticed until after 9/11? Respect them for the fact that they are firefighters, not that their friends are dead.
Oh and last week I was walking around the city with my fly unzipped and someone was nice enough to let me know. We're still down and dirty New Yorkers but we're better than we were.
Sorry for the rant, I tend to go off about stuff like this. It just is too persoanl for me I guess.
You won't understand what happened that day unless you were here and some so-called "Americans" need to deal with that, accept that and don't try and act like they have somehow been as deeply affected as those of us who were down there that day. They should consider themselves lucky they didn't have to be there. And its only going to get worse leading up to the one year anniversary which is going to make me even sicker to my stomach.
As for the whole FDNY, NYPD, PAPD etc. thing, several things
1) they weren't the only ones. There were construction workers and iron workers that started volunteering at 10:30am on Sept. 11, worked 24 hours a day rain or shine and cleaned up that pit ahead of schedule and under budget. And remember the EMS guys who also lost co-workers who were trying to help the injured. Just because the EMS workers don't have a special letter thing that looks good on a t-shirt doesn't mean they didn't lose people.
2) If I see a firefighter in NYC I walk by them with my head down. I still can't look those guys in the eye. How can you look someone in the eye that is willing to put their life on the line any day for you-- and that you never noticed until after 9/11? Respect them for the fact that they are firefighters, not that their friends are dead.
Oh and last week I was walking around the city with my fly unzipped and someone was nice enough to let me know. We're still down and dirty New Yorkers but we're better than we were.
Sorry for the rant, I tend to go off about stuff like this. It just is too persoanl for me I guess.