A strange comparison

[nyhuskyfan]

Maybe it's my imagination, but I remember after 9/11 that they had heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story of people who were looking frantically for missing friends and relatives near Ground Zero. They would hold up pictures for the camera and say "if anyone has seen him, please call" or something to that effect. Many of the missing were the stockbroker/Wall Street types.

Now, with all the displaced and missing people in the aftermath of Katrina, you don't see very many of those stories. Just about all of the missing people are poor.

I could be off-base, but it seems strikingly different. The losses after 9/11 were made very personal and very real by the media. The losses in this tragedy are mostly vague and impersonal. There are exceptions, of course (the man telling the story of losing his wife on CNN jumps to mind).

[Tace]

1. We Didn't Evacuate The City

There is an armory on Lexington Ave. where all the victims' relatives posted photos of their missing loved ones. Most of the stuff you saw on TV with people holding up pictures in the days following 9/11 were shot outside the armory.

[nyhuskyfan]

2. Good point...

Most of the people holding up pictures didn't need to be evacuated form anywhere.