Gamertell

I remember standing in front of the television with my co-workers September 11, 2001, watching in non-belief that such a thing would even happen on American soil.

So when I read the story on Fox News 29 Philadelphia that a new online game called New York Defender II featured images of that day caused an outrage, I can truly understand why. It was the pouring of salt into the wounds of all those who were still shocked by the events of 9/11.

Out of curiosity I found the website, Uzinagaz to check it out for myself. In New York Defender II, you play a small fighter jet patrolling the area and when one airplane changes its route or passes the airport and heads for downtown you shoot it down. Your progress board is in the shape of one of the two towers. If it’s completely filled in with red you lose. It didn’t bother me as much as New York Defender did, where almost instantly you see the twin towers and the airplanes speeding towards and crashing into the towers. You have to shoot them down before they hit the towers.

What was intended to be entertaining brought up memories of that day. I must say I agree with the people interviewed for the My Fox Philly (Fox News 29) story - this was in bad taste. Not only that it was an impossible game to play let alone win. I had to stop after a few minutes when planes kept hitting the building from every direction. Many lives were lost that day, there are many more people who remember that day and as Lee Lelpi, a retired firefighter, told news corespondent Cynthia Guaba, referring to the designer of the game. “Shame on you.”

I can see how this would really bother someone. It was bad enough when CNN kept repeating this scene over and over again throughout the day and the days that followed 9/11. Even now, years later, watching the movie World Trade Center with Nicholas Cage was still a little hard for me to watch. I even cried.

I remember my editor at the Fort Bragg Paraglide Newspaper calling the Pentagon after the plane struck there to see if one of military journalists, who had been working there that week on special assignment, was alright.

There was no dial tone, the lines were so busy we couldn’t even call her cellphone.

Luckily, after hours of worry she finally called, in fact she was on the grounds taking photos of the events that took place that day and we were able to publish photos no one else had in time to publish on the front page of our newspaper. She even made journalist of the year with her shocking photos of the damage and chaos at the Pentagon.

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