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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Not replying only makes it worse.
Trolls NEVER respond to direct questions.
So what is being said is that we should stop with the Pearl Harbor commemoration also. Both were an attack where a large number of our fellow citizens died and we will always remember them. ALWAYS!
Yes, it is too much for you to ask us to forget. Never forget!
By the way............muslims would love for us to forget. But........they don’t know the American people. That’s why we have war memorials, so we can and do remember those that have died for us.
Please tell us you are not another factless libtard...if so...
the ZOT shall come!
IBTZ
The left armpit reveals another wild hair.
Bingo...
Of course they’re going to talk about it. Our focus should not be on what they did to us, but on what we have done to them, and still need to do far more of. If we really must do the anniversary thing, let’s mark the day the Taliban fell, or the day we captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or the day Saddam fell, or the day Khadafy gave up his weapons, or the day we killed Zarqawi, or the day we convicted Jose Padilla, or the day we opened Guantanamo . . .
Here’s my email:
Dear Dan,
As for your column, I’ve already forgotten it. Please flush it with the other waste.
We will never forget.
This is America. People are free to do, or not do, whatever they want within the framework of our laws.
As for me and mine ...
9-11-01
NEVER FORGET!
Those who forget... tend to repeat...
TRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Am I IBTZ?
Invisigoth, if you agree with this sentiment, you and the author of this can do whatever you want on the anniversary of 09/11. Let those of us who wish to remember and to honor those innocents who died commemorate it any way we choose.
Or, the 4th of July for that matter.
This is an incredibly simplistic view of that profound and history altering day.
I contend that the anniversaries are not a day we dedicate to our enemy but rather a day where we remember those patriots who were innocent victims of the global war on terror. In additiion, we celebrate our great national pride, spirit, and resolve as the fight is being taken to our enemy with the passion it deserves as a result of this terrible day.
In conclusion, Mr. Calabrese should become more familiar with cliches because those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Should we get another Democrat administration, expect the slashing of military and intel budgets along with large walls erected to divide and separate our intelligence communities.
So, no Dan, we will not stop commemorating 9/11 now or ever.
Tell this to the families who lost loved ones. Shaking my head at you...Seems you post yet can’t reply hmmmmmm.....
It’s sophistry...
This piece has an agenda and it isnt anything above board.
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