tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post5679126670783648837..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: Twelve Years LaterAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-19304533272176935722013-09-15T11:09:04.958-07:002013-09-15T11:09:04.958-07:00+ Q Perfume Blog a.k.a. Simone:
I am pretty much ...+ Q Perfume Blog a.k.a. Simone:<br /><br />I am pretty much with you on this. It took me a couple of years before I could even bring myself to go down there.<br /><br />I find the scale of the museum distasteful. But as you point out, any 9/11 commercialization is creepy. There's a great scene in <i>Rescue Me</i> where Denis Leary's NYFD firefighter character, who has lost his cousin and others, goes nuts on a guy hawking a table full of "9/11 cookies" and other crap.<br /><br />Compare & contrast: Grant's Tomb up in Morningside Heights.Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-6860220743994940062013-09-15T06:47:04.022-07:002013-09-15T06:47:04.022-07:00Dear Avery, I have never spoken about this to Amer...Dear Avery, I have never spoken about this to Americans afraid I would hurt patriotic feeling, but it did bother me A LOT to see that your country actually BRANDED a terrorist attack. It is shameful. Selling postcards, books, videos, cd's, dvd's and all that souvenirs in the Ground Zero site made me actually sick to my stomach.<br />People holding family and friends and taking shots there as if they were taking a picture with Mickey Mouse in Disneyland also makes me sick to my stomach. People actually smile on these pictures like it is an awesome moment being there!<br />What is wrong with these people??? Nothing. It is cultural, so I don't understand why are you so surprised with all that. Frankly... Americans like to brand everything that might be a financial sales success.<br />I have never seen people in Israel taking pictures in YAD VASHEM like if being in the holocaust museum is some sort of happy event.<br />To me being inside the Ground Zero (which I got tickets from free, otherwise I would not enter to it) made me sad, introspective and very depressed. walking around the whole area and seeing it DEAD when once was a pulsating financial area made me cry. i felt as bad as I felt the day I went to Yad Vashem.<br />Israelis would NEVER sell postcards of the Dolphinarium Club in Tel Aviv where hundreds of teenagers were murdered by terrorists. NEVERRRRR. <br />It is insulting for the memories of those who actually lost someone there.<br />That said, those are my thoughts and I am apologizing in advance if my opinion ofends anyone who reads your blog, or even you...but all Ground Zero issue is so wrong to my eyes...+ Q Perfume Bloghttp://www.maiqueperfume.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-24514089551665837522013-09-15T06:45:24.896-07:002013-09-15T06:45:24.896-07:00Dear Avery, I have never spoken about this to Amer...Dear Avery, I have never spoken about this to Americans afraid I would hurt patriotic feeling, but it did bother me A LOT to see that your country actually BRANDED a terrorist attack. It is shameful. Selling postcards, books, videos, cd's, dvd's and all that souvenirs in the Ground Zero site made me actually sick to my stomach.<br />people holding family and friends and taking shots there as if they were taking a picture with Mickey Mouse in Disneyland also makes me sick to my stomach. People actually smile on these pictures like it is an awesome moment being there!<br />What is wrong with this people??? Nothing. It is cultural, so I don't understand why are you so surprised with all that. Frankly...<br />i have never seen people in Israel taking pictures in YAD VASHEM like if being in the holocaust museum is some sort of happy event.<br />To me being inside the Ground Zero (which I got tickets from free, otherwise I would not enter to it) made me sad, introspective and very depressed. walking around the whole area and seeing it DEAD when once was a pulsating financial area made me cry. i felt as bad as I felt the day I went to Yad Vashem.<br />Israelis would NEVER sell postcards of the Dolphinarium Club in Tel Aviv where hundreds of teenagers were murdered by terrorists. NEVERRRRR. <br />It is insulting for the memories of those who actually lost someone there.<br />That said, those are my thoughts and I am apologizing in advance if my opinion ofends anyone who reads your blog, or even you...but all Ground Zero issue is so wrong to my eyes...+ Q Perfume Bloghttp://www.maiqueperfume.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com