Last week there were some tasteless WTC jokes posted on this board. In the midst of comments condemning the jokes, I posted that I thought one of them was funny. I apologize.
While I haven’t been affected as personally and as traumatically as people closer to the attack sites, I have and continue to be very much affected.
I work just 2 blocks from the white house, live 1/2 mile away from a naval air base (planes constantly fly very low overhead) and live within the 1 mile “ground zero” of a nuclear power plant. I feel very exposed and unsafe. I keep thinking (rationally or not) that the next escalation point is for a terrorist to bomb a nuclear power plant. With the relatively low density of population in the area surrounding this plant, it could be threatening enough to the gov’t, without a complete devastation of the country, to serve as a target.
It is my misfortune to be a person who responds to tragedy by attempting to be witty and in having a dark sense of humour. I apologize to anyone I’ve offended.
I’ll be going back into lurk mode for awhile. No responses are necessary.