[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Why is it that we love to celebrate our defeats? If you go to Pearl Harbor, you will see the beautiful monument to the USS ARIZONA. Certainly a symbol of our greatest military defeat up until 1941. Next to it is anchored the USS MISSOURI , on whose deck the unconditional surrender of Japan was signed. This proud ship is kept there temporarily, supported by private gifts. Why is the DEFEAT more worth memorializing than the ultimate VICTORY??

This is a serious question.

[motexva]

Well, soon there will be a WWII memorial, de facto acknowledgement of our victory. And we don't have a victory yet in this war. You memorialize people who die like this because their lives and deaths are worth memorializing, as are the lessons one learns through prayer and meditation over events like WTC and PH.