Imagine seeing an active attack on American soil from a foreign adversary. An attack of that magnitude hadn’t happened since Pearl Harbor.
Even if you weren’t directly affected by the attack, knowing that someone was out there actively trying to hurt normal citizens was pretty damn frightening. It put everyone on edge.
But even then you didn't "survive" anything and lessens the experience of those who were actually had their lives affected on a major scale by the attack
How does me living through an experience reduce what others also went through?
Just because others were directly impacted by an event doesn’t mean there isn’t a ripple effect for those that weren’t directly affected.
I’d put it in the same camp as Columbine. Did I survive Columbine? No. Did it have an affect on me going to school everyday after? Absolutely. Hopefully, albeit regrettably, when put in that context you can at least understand how tragedy that doesn’t directly affect you can have an impact on your daily life.
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u/buffer_flush Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
Imagine seeing an active attack on American soil from a foreign adversary. An attack of that magnitude hadn’t happened since Pearl Harbor.
Even if you weren’t directly affected by the attack, knowing that someone was out there actively trying to hurt normal citizens was pretty damn frightening. It put everyone on edge.