Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?
Sep. 5th, 2008 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanI came home tonight to the news that the GOP Convention apparently used as part of their convention wrap-up Grand presentation footage of 9/11. Including people jumping to their deaths from the Towers. Footage is here if you feel you need proof.
I haven't watched it. I will not watch it. Readers of this Journal and my web site know that I was in the city that day -- that I saw it all unfold not via the distance of a television screen, but out my office window. I knew rescue workers who raced to the scene hoping to find survivors. I knew people who died. For weeks, the sound of sirens made me wake in a cold sweat, crying. I was treated, years after, for PTSD from that day, and still have rather specific triggery reactions to sirens or sudden loud noises, or the visual of planes crashing.
To use footage of this event, to make use of the murder of thousands of innocents for political gain and call it a "tribute"?
No. A thousand and a thousand more times fuck no.
I haven't watched it. I will not watch it. Readers of this Journal and my web site know that I was in the city that day -- that I saw it all unfold not via the distance of a television screen, but out my office window. I knew rescue workers who raced to the scene hoping to find survivors. I knew people who died. For weeks, the sound of sirens made me wake in a cold sweat, crying. I was treated, years after, for PTSD from that day, and still have rather specific triggery reactions to sirens or sudden loud noises, or the visual of planes crashing.
To use footage of this event, to make use of the murder of thousands of innocents for political gain and call it a "tribute"?
No. A thousand and a thousand more times fuck no.
