to still be shocked at the 9/11 attacks

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i am watching a programme on itv1 about the 9/11 attacks and it still sends shivers down my spine.

SEA, I watched that proggramme as well, felt so sorry for the children when they mentioned about it being shown at every anniversary. Makes you wonder how many more years they will show this for.

I want to know if they rescued that woman who was in the fire engine.

Of course YANBU, that was probably the most shocking thing most of us have witnessed. I was in bed for the start of the news coverage(typical teenager), my Mum came pelting up the stairs raving about the world ending .

I was half asleep and didn't really take it in at first, we just sat and stared at the TV for hours.

We should never forget.

My kids are watching this year for the first time.

We are all horrified.

The people who lost their lives should always be remembered. I cry when I think of the fire fighters climbing to their deaths; the "jumpers" choosing a quicker way out; the hero civilians onboard the hijacked plane

Am I the only one who recalls how awful it was, and still is for the family of the dead and injured, BUT is very very sceptical of how the footage is churned out every anniversary? What new 'stuff' do we learn?

We surely don't need this? But the advertisers on the commercial channels do love it.

We don;t see the footage of the Asian tsunarmi, for instance, or the footage of he deaths in Sudan only last year.

Are our coolective vulnerable emotional pissers being pulled for the sake of advertisers? I think so.

collective even.

Yeah my kids are watching it as well

I disagree, Pan. Those instances you compare were natural disasters.This was terrorism. Men deliberately creating this death destruction terror and chaos against other human beings.

The fear of repeat attacks is among us all. I'll bet many who work in high rise in New York now pack a parachute and gas mask under their desk

I was thinking about this the other day, and wondered if there will ever be an anniversary of 9/11 where no programmes about it are shown. I don't think there will be, at least not in my lifetime. I think that showing them is the right thing to do (although I truly feel for the bereaved families) and I don't think we should move on tbh, at least in terms of the anniversaries. Our world changed forever that day. We can't, and shouldn't, forget.

I personally feel that the programmes shown are a tribute to every person who died that day, and it's the world's way of remembering them and what they went through.

the programme about the children and families was a much better tribute - they had a chance to talk about the family members they had lost, their real lives before the attacks.

i don't like the way the attacks are re-shown from every angle now. and it's only 1st september not 11th.

Did the world change forever that day? Or just the US? Because we always had terrorist attacks in our country, and many other countries
This was the first time America had been attacked

Dream - Sudan deaths wasn't a natural disaster at all. It was a civil war. I could also bang on about Cambodia, or Rhuanda, where millions of lives were lost.

I am simply pointing out that the 'grief' shows are nothing much more than that. Once 9/11 comes round it's a feeding fest of emotional indulgence and the 'winners' are the promoters of goods for sale.

Not to such a huge extent cj, I can't think of a time when so many people have died on one non-wartime day.

SEA - we now have 10 days of this stuff - the TV stations really don't care about the costs to families and survivors - it's a business which really shouldn't be shrouded as something else.

Many people have said: they didn't realise the enormity of it at the time due to age. Thanks to these programmes, these people can learn about "The Day The World Changed". People like my DD, who was 13 weeks old at the time.

I'm watching as I don't know it all, even through watching years of informative programmes about it.

With time we forget, and I think that would be a bad thing.

Not least we should take the time to respect those innocents who lost their lives.

If you've seenit all before, don't watch.

Yes that's true but we still knew what terrorists could do didn't we?
I'm not sure in what way it changed the world? Except to make foreign policy more aggressive

Sorry pan I'm speed reading and typing and watching tv, I missed the reference to Sudan, just skimmed and saw Asian tsunami.

I still think its a bit cynical to think this is churned out year on year just to line pockets of advertisers.

cynical but i agree with pan, a few years ago the programmes were just shown on one (or two) days - not spread over weeks as it is now.

find it quite disrespectful

it still haunts me my then 4yr old asking me why the plane had hit the tower and why they were on fire :( i had just made lunch and 2 ds`s were sat at table and i was waiting for neighbours to start i was 7 mths pg with my twins

I'd want it to be shown if I'd lost someone, I think. I'd want them to be remembered by all

It showed the extent to which some people are prepared to go to try to get power and influence cj.

Who would have thought 'they'd' go that far pre-9/11?

Nobody did, or they'd have been contingency plans in place.

Agreed, zigzag. Before then, terror on this scale ws unthinkable

First time the US was attacked? - yes, it was. Apart from within.

The US made a profit from WW2. It was 'good' for them. And of course it led to a more aggressive foreign policy ie Afghanistan - on the "search" for Bin Laden in the caves of the north of that country. Whe nthey knew hewasn't there in any event. BUT still stayed in any event.

9/11 was a major tragedy - graphic and immediate for thosewho remember it. But this diarreoaha(sp? big time) of shows is insulting.

Yeah, weeks and weeks of programs is quite a lot, but then it's on all year round on some satellite channels.

The towers were attacked in 1993 weren't they?

Explosives in the lower carparks I think.

I wouldn't want to watch the murder of someone I loved every year on television and in the newspapers and on the internet.... I think the people jumping form buildings is the worst in a way