Mood Changes at Ground Zero

Denton Record-Chronicle ^ | 09/25/2001 | By Alan Hempstead as told to Donna Fielder / Staff Writer

[fella]

The mainstream media isn't telling us this stuff. It's as if they are attempting to quell our anger so that when the time comes we will not have the will to do what is just.

[Travis McGee]

Wow. Great find, the real deal.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

ping

[SunStar]

BTTT

[Lion's Cub]

The mainstream media isn't telling us this stuff. It's as if they are attempting to quell our anger so that when the time comes we will not have the will to do what is just.

That was my feeling, too, about a half- hour ago. But then I read a piece about the authorities believing that Bin Laden has production facitities in Afghanistan for making WMD's. If this is true, then it's necessary for them to identify the facilities to make sure they are targeted and destroyed. It will do little good to get Bin Laden if we leave those facilities intact.

So maybe the media has been asked to avoid inciting a war fever to give the government time to identify those facilities.

That may or may not be true, but it would certainly explain the laid-back reporting.

[snorkeler]

btt

[dougherty]

The mainstream media isn't telling us this stuff. It's as if they are attempting to quell our anger so that when the time comes we will not have the will to do what is just.

Sad, but true. But, we won't forget, we can't forget and these basta*** will pay for what they have done.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Bump! I heard on FOX News the very first day that they were censoring the videos and photos from the first day as they were to horrible to show and children might be watching. Spanish language T.V. Stations showed uncut, uncensored photos and videos, FOX News and others made the right decision.

There were all kinds of body parts, heads, legs, arms, hands, feet, torsos, and parts or torsos, not for the normal viewer, and blood and guts, things I will never forget and I'm sure none of us wanted out children to see. IMHO

[Joe Brower]

Quote from the article:

"Freedom has always had a cost." Yes, it does. In fact, it's never "owned", but can only be "leased", and the currency is, as it always has been, blood.

[Neets]

I'll never really be quite the same. Nobody can go to that site and walk on it and not be changed.

Nobody.

This should be required reading by every US Citizen

[TKEman]

The situation has clearly changed. This is a real war against a brutal foreign enemy. We simply must win, and be prepared for the long haul.

[michaelt]

Thanks for posting this.

I have a very good friend who is on one of the Search and Rescue teams. He just returned home in the last few days. He has said that he cannot explain what he saw in words. Maybe someday I will be able to report what his experiences were.

The media may be limiting what it shows, but isn't the government limiting access down there too?

And why is this happening? It may be too graphic to show; I can understand that. I don't have to see body parts to understand what a horrific act has been committed here.

Is the media trying to subvert our will? That I don't agree with, at least it is not a coordinated effort. I don't see them pushing the "Give Peace A Chance" line.

Is the government trying to limit our immediate visceral response to the images, to prevent our calling for immediate action, and limit the amount of anti-Arab crime in the US? Possibly, and if so, I think its a good idea. I trust our leaders to respond appropriately at the right time.

And let's not forget that even seeing more pictures cannot do justice to what is really at the WTC site. I think the American people are pissed off enough; we know enough about what happened, via pictures, via stories of visitors, via stories of people like these guys, to support the government's response.

[Jeff Head]

I graduated from Denton High School, Denton, Texas where these guys are from. They are a younger than I ... sounds like by about 7 or 8 years.

Denton is the Regional Center for a big FEMA orrganization and my guess is these guys are attached through that to the Task Force they are on..

[Lent]

Geez. The mainstream press does seem to be hiding stories like this. There's no need to whitewash this carnage.

[LetsRok]

We were digging out a female and needed to finish before we left. We found a lot of bodies today. I don't mean just our team. I mean the whole operation. It's getting really bad. The smell is so bad. You just can't imagine.

I can only imagine the smell of 5000+ rotting corpses and assorted body parts which coat the rubble. It must be pretty bad trying to work in those conditions.

[texlok]

That's what I figured as well, they are down to pulling pieces of bodies and the airliner out and no family wants to see the remains of their loved one on the front page of some tabloid.

Yes we are all adults, but there is a common decency. There are people who would love to post pics of the bodies and planes all over the internet.

[Vicki]

The stupid anti-war lady on Michael Medved should have to go and look at ground zero. In fact all these pacifists should go there.

[pollyshy]

Thanks for posting this. There are no guarantees - ever.

[Neets]

Here is some information about these anti-war people

International Action Center

International Answer