Se tourner vers le sport dans le processus de guérison? Pour certains, oui.
"The immediate reaction after the 9/11 attacks was to dismiss sports as unimportant, to postpone the games as the nation came to grips with what happened.
Everyone agreed that was the right decision. But soon after, the games people love became an integral part of the healing process for the New York region. The athletes, some with absolutely no ties to the city but a uniform, became a source of inspiration.
They went to ground zero to meet with the men and women working night and day to clean up. They lifted boxes of relief supplies off trucks, many times in stadium parking lots that had become staging areas. They wore caps and uniform patches to honor the firefighters and police officers who lost their lives trying to save others as the World Trade Center fell.
Former Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde remembers going to ground zero a few days after the towers fell, passing the soldiers with machine guns at their sides to shake hands with the rescue workers.
"It was a little frightening to be down there, walking around, not knowing what was going to happen," Testaverde said this week, "and not knowing what you were going to see."
Then, at a time when many wondered if it was right -- or even safe -- to gather and cheer for something as trivial as a baseball game, they helped everyone realize it was OK to be normal again.
"It almost felt defiant," said Zeile, then an infielder for the Mets. "It was like New York saying to the world, 'We're going to be OK. You can hit us, but you can't keep us down.'""
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/08/sports.on.9.11/index.html
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