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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
I stumbled across an interesting blog post about events like 9.11, describing mega-events like this as rings in a tree for society:
The very center point, or origin, is the event itself.The event is just the series of actions that were taken, nothing more and nothing less. Let’s create a workable metaphor for this event, for example: Jane climbs up a tree in her yard and falls out of the tree. When she lands, she breaks her leg.
The next ring is how this event effected you. What personally happened to you, while that event was running it’s course. This would be the physical pain Jane felt from the broken bones. Who came and helped her to the hospital? Her reaction to pain, hospital and embarrassment of falling.
The final, and the most important, is how was all these series of actions were perceived by you, post event. Did Jane ever climb a tree again? Is she afraid of heights? Because Tommy laughed at her, she is no longer friends with him? Is she afraid of doctors? Doesn’t like hospitals? etc.
You lose the stories of past mega-events as generations move on. Where were my grandparents when they learned that the US was going to WWI? Where were they are Black Monday? I have no idea, although I have heard stories about how they coped with the war and the depression and the aftermath. My mother and father were at the movies on Pearl Harbor Day -- I wasn't there, of course, but heard the stories about it from parents and grandparents -- but although I told my kids those stories, it meant little to them. I was at junior high school when JFK was shot -- and have told the story many times to my kids, but it was just part of history to them and I doubt that they remember that anymore than the stories about my parents and Pearl Harbor Day. Frank and I were in the Animal Kingdom of WDW on 9.11, Gem was at work and Tom was sleeping -- we have shared our stories, of course, but this is the only event that is real to Tom and Gem because they were there and saw not only the event but lived through the aftermath the changes wrought.
Interestingly, all three events loom large in US history, not global history. Each of the three gain notice internationally because the US subsequently and substantially altered the way it behaved, and that has impacted the rest of the world.
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