Twin Towers Halloween Costume.

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Anger after women in 9/11 Twin Towers fancy dress win Halloween costume contest - Telegraph

These two "women" dressed up as the burning Twin Towers for a Halloween fancy dress contest. Shocking enough in itself, but even worse, they were awarded £150 in shopping vouchers after the DJ hosting the contest decided they had the best costume. I'm absolutely repulsed by this but am wondering when is a costume too much?

I went to a costume party with a friend who dressed as Hitler once and was comfortable with that, despite the fact millions died under his command. I feel maybe I was okay with it because Hitler is part of history, but not my living history, if that makes sense. Whereas the reality of what happened to the Twin Towers was played live around the world and the majority of us felt true horror when we watched them fall. The girls have tried to defend their costumes by saying they were depicting true horror...personally I think they displayed ignorance and stupidity. :glare:
 
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I saw another article where a girl lost her job for dressing as a survivor of the Boston Marathon. She was wearing a running outfit and had blood on her legs and face. She posted a photo on Twitter with the hashtag #toosoon? Uh, yeah. Maybe never...

I don't understand why people think that or the Twin Towers would be acceptable. Although I guess people dress up with knives and arrows sticking out of them all the time, and no one bats an eye at that.
 
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Sheer stupidity on their part, and more so on the contest judges for awarding the prize. This is a sensitive subject, and I feel to anyone who saw what happened on that dreadful day, this is totally thoughtless and ignorant of these people. I don't think it will ever get better as emotions are still too raw and painful.
 
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These girls were 7 when it happened, and they are not american. My son is only a few years younger, and I don't this it's really "real" to him either.

I can't imagine him ever dressing like that.
 
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AnnaMarie said:
These girls were 7 when it happened, and they are not american. My son is only a few years younger, and I don't this it's really "real" to him either.

I can't imagine him ever dressing like that.
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Thanks, that's a good way of viewing it. :smile2: I personally don't feel a person's nationality makes a difference, I'm not American but still appreciate the gravity of what happened, and watched in shock as it unfolded live on TV, as did millions of others throughout the world. People of various nationalities died that day, not only Americans. Also, the father of one of the girls was a pilot in America at the time, so I feel there's no excuse for her not understanding the realism/severity of what happened.
 
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~Ally~ said:
Thanks, that's a good way of viewing it. :smile2: I personally don't feel a person's nationality makes a difference, I'm not American but still appreciate the gravity of what happened, and watched in shock as it unfolded live on TV, as did millions of others throughout the world. People of various nationalities died that day, not only Americans. Also, the father of one of the girls was a pilot in America at the time, so I feel there's no excuse for her not understanding the realism/severity of what happened.
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The reason I mentioned they are not American is because I think kids living in the states are raised thinking more about it. Maybe on the one year anniversary it was mentioned in my older son's high school. But a lot of my on-line friends talk about what the schools do every year.

I just think this is more "kid stupid" then cruel.
 
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