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To: linda_22003

I understand...I happened to catch some of their footage...

What luck they had running a "gas leak" call with the station they were hanging out with and then this happened...I commend them for their luck in documenting such an unforeseen event during that call...

Not that I do not care about what happened, I just do not personally need, nor see the need to have dramatic recreations, or re-broadcasts of actual footage of what happened that day...

I do not see a value to that...socially or economic value...

If you forget, so be it...It doesn't make you more or less of a person in my book...

If you wish to draw a comparison...My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked...I see documentaries and footage of that attack all the time...I don't need that...

My grandfather for years would tell me little details of that day that far outweigh any drama or documentary could ever repeat or recreate...

It made it all too real to be in the service years after to be able to walk around some of the places my grandfather talked about, and be able to close my eyes and remember what "he" told me...

To me those experiences are more valuable than whatever the entertainment industry doing the same thing for whatever reason...

But thats just my take...I'm not cross, or mad, at the direction of this discussion at all...


248 posted on 08/29/2006 8:31:22 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: stevie_d_64


There is nothing in this documentary that is recreated or added after the fact (dialogue, profanity, etc). And not many people are lucky enough to have a relative that can give first hand stories over years as to what happenened on some of the most infamous days in our country's history from the actual place.


251 posted on 08/29/2006 8:49:53 AM PDT by WV Mountain Mama (Good luck Andre! I hope you go out with a win, you're a great tennis player & even greater man.)
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