It disturbs me also how our press keeps showing us enemy wounded and dead, but won't show us ours.
However, this is where I am really torn. I do not think I could bear to happen upon the mangled faces of my friends that were murdered there on the front page of a magazine, or on T.V. as if it were entertainment. I cannot bear the thought that their children would have to see it.
I cannot be objective here. If it matters to you, I don't think you are a wierdo or anything to want a visual record of the atrocities. I just don't want to see them.
I can relate, some people have seen enough. My only goal is to record this TERRORIST ATTACK for future reference.
Like I said on a previous post, I can barely look at even the photo of the firefighters re-raising the flag without crying.
BTW, I have a killer image that occured shortly after the 2nd tower coming down that has what I believe was the typical flagpoles that most buildings have, it is dark, not the best in a photog's eyes , but the flag was still standing. Immediately after the collapse.
That was very powerful.
It disturbs me also how our press keeps showing us enemy wounded and dead, but won't show us ours.
However, this is where I am really torn. I do not think I could bear to happen upon the mangled faces of my friends that were murdered there on the front page of a magazine, or on T.V. as if it were entertainment.
My sentiments exactly. I did not tape the events of 9/11 as they unfolded because I did not want to ever have to witness the horror of that morning ever again (I'm talking about the initial 4 hours of repeated coverage). After a few days the crash footage was dropped from broadcast and no more atrocities were shown. Instead coverage went to the cleanup/rescue efforts.
I agreed that no one should learn of their friends and family deaths by seeing the body on tv. I agreed that I would rather not see the grue nightly. I did state that all this would change when we started to kill the enemy and when the terrorists struck in other countries. I do not appreciate the double standard and see the left (and foreign press) using such photos (of our enemies) to muster support for the US-out peace stance.
If we cannot be exposed to the truths of the carnage in NYC, then I do not need to see the aftermath of other locales.