9/11 on CBS - Holy Cow

It's starting right now. I've mentioned this before as one of the only 9/11 related things I ever watched. They originally aired it on the 6 month anniversary - incredibly painful, incredibly hard to watch. But it's on if you want to / feel up to it.

It's the documentary shot by the French brothers who happened to be shooting a documentary about a rookie firefighter and ended up in the middle of it all.

God it's sad. This world just makes me so sad.

[ellie]

Thanks for the heads up, Jenn. I'm turning it on now.

[DCJenn]

You know, I'm burned out already, and it's not even here yet.

As much as I love this country and 99% of everything it stands for- we have this incredibly yucky tendency to 'memoralize' things to the point where they completely lose meaning.

(like Memorial Day- why should remembering war dead mean you can buy a mattress 50% off?)

I have NO DOUBT that in 30 years it'll be "Patriot Day New Car Sales...Show your NJ, NY, DC, VA, or PA driver's license and we'll give you ____ dollars off your NEW CAR."

It's disgusting. The best thing anyone can do tomorrow is not buy into the entire maudlin event.

Jenn

[Gwendolyn]

I can't agree with you more Jenn! This documentary was the exception however. I didn't watch tonight, but what I remember is that the brothers were there with firefighters shooting a documentary about probationary firefighters and were just pulled along as the whole thing unfolded. I think it is a respectful remembrance instead of 9/11 super sized...my 2 cents...

I can't agree with you more Jenn! This documentary was the exception however. I didn't watch tonight, but what I remember is that the brothers were there with firefighters shooting a documentary about probationary firefighters and were just pulled along as the whole thing unfolded. I think it is a respectful remembrance instead of 9/11 super sized...my 2 cents...

that's pretty much my take on it. i did not watch it again tonight -- i started crying before it even really began and decided to go grocery shopping instead.

it was footage that was had, that happened as events unfolded. no re-enactments or dramatazations. the kind of thing that i figure should be viewed 25 years down the road to show people the truth of what happened in NY that day -- not the sanitized, hoo-haa Americanized, Bush standing on a pile of rubble version.

i do agree w/you Jenn. how remembering the fallen equates to big sales blows my mind.

[Meenah]

I watched it and liked it

[Stella]

I watched it too. It was pretty good. Not as heart-wrenching as some other reminders. Has anyone been to the Smithsonian US History Museum recently? I went last summer and saw the World Trade Center was in there. I couldn't believe I cried in a museum but it was really incredible to see something in a huge museum that you experienced as well. Quite different from the Civil War exhibits, for example.

The documentary wasn't distasteful in the least, though I was surprised they played the F word on primetime. (Just one instance, as I recall.) It was good, but it didn't draw me in the way I expected it would. Still a couple tears though, I'm not gonna lie.

If I remember correctly, they warn about the "rough" language, but said they felt it was important to allow such things to remain intact.

[Stella]

Yeah, it really wasn't that bad actually. I was impressed by how "together" everyone seemed. If it were me, I feel like I would have freaked out and been screaming profanities left and right.