some thoughts...

I went for the SAL movie night with Ad on Monday to watch "World Trade Centre".

It was "tastefully" done, in the sense that I felt it would not jar the nerves of those who experienced the trauma of 9-11, but there was nothing tasteful about the events which took place on that day. The movie managed to capture the raw shock and horror felt by the victims and the emergency personnel, but most of all, it embodied the strength of the human spirit at the end of it all. By the end of the movie, there was narry a dry eye in the cinema.

I condemn terrorism. I fail to see how the killing of thousands of innocent lives can ever be justified for any cause or agenda. Have the perpetrators ever tried imagining how the families and loved ones of the victims would feel? Have they tried to imagine, to quantify, to feel, the immense waste and pity to terminate the life of a baby who has her whole life ahead, a child who has just learnt algebra, a teenager who just had her first kiss, a fresh graduate who had just finished a decade of formal education, a father who just cradled his first child, and the list goes on...

I pray for the victims and their loved ones, but most of all, I pray for the perpetrators. Let them see the folly of their ways. The killing needs to stop. Let peace prevail.