I suppose that one-for-one,n a personal level,they're not,but just like people have a reaction to the souls lost on the Titanic,when countless lives were lost in maritime disasters or "man overboard" situations,that no one knows about or talks about,it showed our vulnerability when we thought that we were pretty impregnable. It's shocking. Everyone I know was shocked at the picture of planes demolishing the WTC,and people who just minutes before had been going about their lives in a "business-as-usual" way,being killed in such an unspeakably nightmarish way,or having no decision to make except whether to stay and die or jump and die. It was just horrific and shocking,and should have brought this nation together for the long term,and it's also shocking that it didn't.
Words well written my friend.
I hope I did not come across at being callous towards their loss because that was not my intent.
The loss of a loved one is hard no matter how, why or when.