Things like the 9/11 thread

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Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 3,907 Send Message	Jean (Monmouth)	Report	11 Sep 2010 11:44
	Understood and agree sometimes.
Member Since: August 2010 Posts: 398 Send Message	Uggers	Report	11 Sep 2010 11:28
Member Since: August 2010 Posts: 398 Send Message	While I wouldn't post on a thread like that to criticise it, I don't usually post on them because I personally feel they're a bit meaningless. I can understand why people do want to post on them but I sort of feel it's claiming I am a part of the events and I wasn't. I was just one of millions of people who viewed things that affected the world on telly. With the 9/11 attacks or the London bombings or Princess Diana's death, I didn't know anyone deeply affected by it, however horrified, stunned or saddened I was by any of them so I feel it's a bit trivialising to sign myself on something that's remembering them. None of us will ever forget where we were, what we were doing or how we felt when these national or international events happened - same with those old enough to remember the war - I still vividly recall heartbreaking stories my grandmother told me. And what I personally feel about these things is real to me whereas adding to threads like the 9/11 thread feel a bit artificial. Just a personal point of view.