Comments on: Remembering 9/11 http://tonychung.ca/2008/09/remembering-911/ Tony Chung is a Vancouver-based creative communications consultant who develops and optimizes websites, produces multimedia and music, writes and illustrates technical documentation, and blogs the living daylight out of faith, family, pop culture, creativity, technology, art, and whatever picks his fancy at the moment. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tonychung http://tonychung.ca/2008/09/remembering-911/comment-page-1/#comment-28 tonychung Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:36:47 +0000 http://tonychung.ca/?p=93#comment-28 Thank you for you comment, Anne. I can always count on your thoughts to provide more insight. I have to be honest that I was quite detached from the events of Sept 11 2001 because we had limited access to media during that time. We didn't have a TV, didn't subscribe to newspapers, and barely surfed the web, as our first child took ALL of our attention. Both my wife and I took time off from work to nurse the newborn.<br><br>I recall groggily waking up to the radio announcer reading the news report of planes crashing into the world trade center as if she herself didn't believe it. It was so far outside the scope of our understanding so as to be completely surreal. My best friend phoned to tell me about it, and my first thought was "wars and rumours of wars...."<br><br>Still, I am encouraged that tragedy still manages to find a way to bring people together, even though I believe at our base we have the capacity to do unthinkable things. (Remember my previous post you responded to). May my negative view of human nature continually be proven wrong. I don't mind. Thank you for you comment, Anne. I can always count on your thoughts to provide more insight. I have to be honest that I was quite detached from the events of Sept 11 2001 because we had limited access to media during that time. We didn't have a TV, didn't subscribe to newspapers, and barely surfed the web, as our first child took ALL of our attention. Both my wife and I took time off from work to nurse the newborn.

I recall groggily waking up to the radio announcer reading the news report of planes crashing into the world trade center as if she herself didn't believe it. It was so far outside the scope of our understanding so as to be completely surreal. My best friend phoned to tell me about it, and my first thought was “wars and rumours of wars….”

Still, I am encouraged that tragedy still manages to find a way to bring people together, even though I believe at our base we have the capacity to do unthinkable things. (Remember my previous post you responded to). May my negative view of human nature continually be proven wrong. I don't mind.

]]> By: Anne Gentle http://tonychung.ca/2008/09/remembering-911/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Anne Gentle Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:42:47 +0000 http://tonychung.ca/?p=93#comment-27 You know, a friend of mine pointed out that September 10th has to be the more difficult day for those who experienced loss of loved ones on 9/11... their last dinner together, their last bedtime routine. Sigh. It chokes me up even to write this comment. Thanks for sharing the strip and reminding us all to cherish every day. You know, a friend of mine pointed out that September 10th has to be the more difficult day for those who experienced loss of loved ones on 9/11… their last dinner together, their last bedtime routine. Sigh. It chokes me up even to write this comment. Thanks for sharing the strip and reminding us all to cherish every day.

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