Posted on 09/13/2007 11:21:05 AM PDT by Invisigoth
Two days removed from the latest 9/11 anniversary commemorations, I wonder if it’s too much to ask that this anniversary be the last.
Are we going to do this every year forever?
America loves anniversaries, and the news media find it easier to write stories about them than to report what’s happening, say, now. But the somber, sad, reverent ceremonies every year are not helping America win this battle. We don’t need any more moments of silence or roll calls of the dead. We’ve done it every year for five years now.
Enough already.
There are those who would like to see America forget 9/11 altogether, because the wellspring of patriotism and national resolve it inspired gives these folks the heebie jeebies. That’s not where I’m coming from at all. I think we’ve already lost our sense of what happened that day to an alarming degree, and the somber, annual ceremonies are likely exacerbating the problem.
By staging these events every September 11, we are elevating the terrorists’ accomplishment far beyond what it deserves, and far beyond that which serves our national interests.
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So newbie, are you for or against??
I’d like to know too.
Do you like cheese?
Is this what we do when we remember Pearl Harbor? I don’t think so. It’s a reminder of things that can happen if we go to sleep. Our people need to remember and the people that did this to us on 9/11 need to remember what followed.
Based on this post, I’m for stopping commemorating FreeRepublic signups from 9/10/2007.
Drop Dead
Yup.. not only because its the right thing to do.. but because it ticks off the left so much..
We need always to remember (and commemorate)...always...always...always.
THe war is only beginning. It is going to last decades — enough to rival the 30 Years War or even teh 100 Years War.
Every AMerican, indeed everyone on the planet needs to be reminded each year of those who attacked us, and why that enemy must be eradicated.
Damn right!
Do you smell that?
Well, YOU obviously have lost it!
We do not forget our fallen.
Invisigoth stupid since Sep 10, 2007
We need to talk about your sister...
Stop Earth Day first and we can consider it
We still commemorate Pearl Harbor Day.
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