Comments on: 9/11, My Hometown Remembers

By: Jim Tighe

Jim Tighe — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:56:10 +0000

Dear Elizabeth…
Thank you for the wonderful piece on RVC, though as an altar boy in the 60s for the life of me cannot remember cars being blessed on the way to the beach. I do remember lectoring at the 10:30 “beach Mass” in the high school basement.

Thanks for remembering Stephen and Tim.

By: chuck

chuck — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:53:18 +0000

Thursday night on the History Channel I watched the special 102 minutes that changed America. It was various povs of the World Trade Center from over 100 videographers all across New York City. Some of it was raw news footage but edited together it told it all. It was one of the best documentrys of 9/11 I ever watched. Since I’m a photographer and I have two digital cameras. Would I done it if I was there? of course. But I wouldn’t have look at my own photographs if I did.
Honestly I miss seeing the World Trade Center in the lower Manhattan cityscape. But I haven’t forgotten it. By the way I Googeled Rockville Centre and it’s real interesting. Colonial comes to my mind. Just thought I pass that on.

By: Michael j O'Donnell

Michael j O'Donnell — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:32:15 +0000

Dear Elizabeth:
Great article, I lost 20 friends down at Ground Zero. It is great you wrote this with the hectic week you have going on on Wall Street.

By: Carla, Ballwin, MO

Carla, Ballwin, MO — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:56:44 +0000

A hometown to be proud of – a place of comfort, tradition, community involvement,religion and compassion. Thank you for your thoughtful article, your friends were remembered lovingly on the anniversary.

By: Greedom

Greedom — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:45:19 +0000

Tragedy is indeed the antagonist of Comedy.

And at the same time tragedy strikes, it strikes anyone, in any way, for reason or no reason at all.

9.11 to Katrina to Hiroshima to Titanic to a loved one lost due to cancer.

I once read a short story of a woman who had lost her child at birth, and was in perpetual mourning. Asking a doctor/psychologist, the response was find me one house where death has not been experienced. Upon returning to the doctor/psych. she found catharsis and healing was able to begin. Why ?

Because… She realized she was no longer alone in her pain.

That story always makes me think of Lincoln’s quote “Two things bring large groups of people together… A common enemy and a [Natural] Disaster”

It is clear and true, loss – almost proportionally the greater the proportion, the greater civilization nudges to accommodate and respond.

Hopefully the response to 9.11 won’t be such to encourage any increase of activity from those plane flying psychotics who decided to board, take over, and crash those planes.

9.11 is also a reminder of how dangerous religious fundamentalism is and can be. I’ve never heard that POV expressed in any journalism or any press though.