September 11th.

[sunshine_queen]

I just read an article about the Oliver Stone 9-11 movie that has a tentative release date of August 11th, 2006. Also in the works is a film about the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, a book adaptation, and a mini-series.

Am I the only one who feels this is too soon?

I feel kind of ridiculous saying that- I said it outloud to my mother, complete with, "It was only four years ago." And it was. Only four years ago.

It seems so long ago when I think of eighth grade- the final year of middle school, picture day. I was wearing an olive green shirt from Express; I had just gotten my braces on a few months before. I'm a senior now, braces are gone, and that picture remains one of my worst. It was too eerie, smiling in the same place where the screens had just gone up, after we'd been watching coverage of the towers. We hadn't even moved into the Eighth Grade Wing yet, we were still in the old Science Wing, me sharing a seat with Becca, the day we became best friends.

I remember the day so clearly- what was rumoured and what was reported, how I felt and what I did, what I wrote and who I showed it to. I remember sobbing that day, and on the first anniversary. I didn't lose anybody that day, but I was disillusioned from that day on. Before then, America had been safe; when September 12th dawned, it was another world.

At the library a few months ago, I was scanning book titles and came across a book by some author I enjoyed. I picked it up to scan the blurb, and when it talked about September 11th, I dropped it. There was no way, some four years later, that I could even conceive of reading a piece of fiction based on that event.

I can't tell if people are being insensitive about so fresh a wound, or if I'm being overly so.

Comments

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks, Commet.

You're right- moving on is a good thing. And people dealing with it their own way is fantastic, and I'm glad that people are able to move on about this. But this isn't just like, coming to terms with it themselves, this is putting it back in the public eye again. Do we really need a reminder so soon?

*hugs* I'm sorry about your friend, Ollie. I'm glad you were able to move on from her death as a stronger person.