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Frankly, the day is irrevocably etched into my mind and heart, and I would rather not relive the trauma all over again. As I rapidly approach my 60th year, I just feel that I've experienced more than my share of American tragedies non of which require a weeks worth of 24/7 media on steroids reminders.
Just as an example, I was in DC for a couple of meetings and made the "mistake" of driving along the National Mall, past the MLK memorial, the Vietnam Memorial before making a wrong turn and finding myself in front of the Arlington Cemetery where I foolishly decided to go up to the Tomb of the Unknown, which of course required me to pass the the rows of military dead and the JFK gravesite. PTSD just won't allow me to handle much more.
We take tragedy and the threat of terror again very seriously. If we forget we are doomed to repeat bad history.
NY needs this to vent as well.
If you wanna debate that nonsense, please go dig up one of the gabillion threads about it, dont hijack this thread.
I'm not debating factual info:
OBL is buried at sea.
No pic has been made public of OBL's dead body.
And yes, I've had enough of 9/11 anniversaries,
except I feel for the families, and I'm
sure it continues for them.
Having arguments with yourself though, is telling.
Oh 9/11
how many ways to exploit the day?
Back-to-school sales are over. If only America's retailers could promote a follow up to that with 9/11 Sales. Buy a Patriot Act wardrobe! 40% off! All TVs 40% off! Get a lump in your throat, a tear in your eye, and rush to the store now!
i just watched the national geographic special on 9-11 so it is fresh in my mind.
you might not have written your post if you had just seen it also. i saw people having to choose to jump or burn to end their lives. i saw people on the airplanes telling their family members they loved them, and one guy even told his dad not to worry because it would be quick if he died. i saw firefighters rushing up the stairs to save people as others were rushing down the stairs to save themselves. there are thousands of individual tragedies in the 9-11 story.
as well, it was a tragedy that altered the way that americans now live-and it has not been an improvement.
we are now subject to violations by the TSA, spying through the patriot act, and other infringements on our own liberties because of what some deranged men chose to do to innocent americans that day.
Personally, I'm not looking forward to it but I think it might be cathartic to remember that awful day.
I cannot get behind "we have to move on, it's not the worst thing that's happened, it's 3,000+ lives, whatever" because as other have detailed it was indeed a world-changing event. We do not live in the same world as we did on 9/10/01.
But at the same time, I'm not going to try to tell anyone else how they should deal with it. It is like grieving; everyone does it in a different way.
If you need to push it aside for you and move on, do so.
If you need to dwell, to sink in those feelings once again, do so.
I can't tell you what's right for you, just as you can't tell me what's right for me.
The opening of the National 9/11 Memorial is adding to the media coverage this year. I think after this tenth anniversary, things will probably calm down somewhat.
Eventually, the Government wants you to understand that it doesn't matter whether the Government itself did 9/11, or that some outside terrorists did it.
The important thing is not who did, but rather, that it was done.
At the time of the event, it was important who did it.
But, that's not important anymore.
Now, can't we just put this behind us and move forward?
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