Fesselfan wrote:My thoughts...
at first it seemed unreal. Maybe because of the many action flics, where we see similar acts of violence. (With much more flash and gliz).
Once I realized it was real, I was shocked.
I had the same feeling! High schooler, gamer, love the action movies... took a second to realize that this was actually happening. You get so comfortable with the idea that violent acts only happen in video games and in the movies or TV and live in a society where almost all violence is personal, you are in disbelieve that something like this was actually happening.
Oh and it didn't help that i was awoken by my mother saying world war 3 just started and the first thing I saw on tv was new york covered in smoke. It scared the HELL out of me... it was early, my brain hadn't woken up, i was petrified for a few minutes until I put 2 and 2 together and realized that infact Russia had not just declared war on us and I wasn't looking at live feed of a nuclear bomb going off in New york.
I remember watching a documentary about it and you know who must have been petrified? The people in aircraft moving around or into the US that morning. For those who don't know, US and Canadian airspace was shut down and all flights were grounded/diverted. One guy on the documentary was saying that the pilot wasn't told what was going on and all that they knew was that the airspace was closed and they were being diverted to Canada. Leave it to someone to try to make sense of things on their own... someone started passing the rumor around the plane that there was a nuclear war occurring and thats why the airspace was closed. I dont know about you guys but I would have been
terrified by that idea!!
One thing I've always wanted to know... who started that rumor about a car bomb going off at the Capitol building? Like i've always wanted to know where rumors like that start and who could start it and why! Either theres some very cruel people in the world (which there are, duh) or some people with some insane imaginations.