New Footage of 9/11 to become special for CBS
February 6th, 2002
CBS, clearly forgetting all about good taste, will air a new special about 9/11, featuring never-before-seen-footage of the planes kamikaze crashes into the towers and of inside the buildings as they were crumbling and burning.
A documentary crew was filming a ladder company around the area, and just happened to capture, and then follow the firefighters into, the biggest loss of life weve seen here on our soil.
The fact that CBS is advertising this as awesome, never-before-seen footage makes my stomach lurch. 9/11 and its aftermath is not an action movie; it doesnt have deleted scenes and an alternate ending. Whatever footage has not been seen should stay that way. Were a few months detached from the events, and that might make it just seem like an inanimate plane crashing into an inanimate building, but what their never-before-seen-footage shows is footage of people dying hideously and unfairly.
I never, ever want to forget what happened. In fact, I fear one day it will all be a thing of the past. I think about what happened every day and it haunts me. But what will we get out of seeing more footage of how people were murdered so brutally? What can we know that we already do not? What emotion can we reach that we havent already spilled over with?
We must always remember the lives lost on that day. We must always remember those who died and celebrate their lives. Reliving their deaths, though, seems pretty damned pointless.
-- Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com)
A documentary crew was filming a ladder company around the area, and just happened to capture, and then follow the firefighters into, the biggest loss of life weve seen here on our soil.
The fact that CBS is advertising this as awesome, never-before-seen footage makes my stomach lurch. 9/11 and its aftermath is not an action movie; it doesnt have deleted scenes and an alternate ending. Whatever footage has not been seen should stay that way. Were a few months detached from the events, and that might make it just seem like an inanimate plane crashing into an inanimate building, but what their never-before-seen-footage shows is footage of people dying hideously and unfairly.
I never, ever want to forget what happened. In fact, I fear one day it will all be a thing of the past. I think about what happened every day and it haunts me. But what will we get out of seeing more footage of how people were murdered so brutally? What can we know that we already do not? What emotion can we reach that we havent already spilled over with?
We must always remember the lives lost on that day. We must always remember those who died and celebrate their lives. Reliving their deaths, though, seems pretty damned pointless.
-- Darwin Mayflower (darwinmayflower@yahoo.com)
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