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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Dan, Dan, Dan.....did it ever occur to you that these commemorations serve to re-enforce our determination to bring these perps to justice and to never allow it to happen again? If some choose to forget let them but don’t ask us to give up something that honors all those who fell that day and continue to this very day.
My wife’s family celebrates the death dates, as well as the birthdays of her relatives (dead and alive). All tragedies in their lives, actually. I always thought that was a little nutty; we acknowledge the 1st anniversary, then move on. Talk of the dead after that is about all of the good things, rarely is a death date mentioned. Not exactly analogous, but this country stands for so much good, it seems a shame to constantly look back at its tragedies and have them overshadow all of the good things. That doesn’t mean to forget that bad things happened, just move on.
NEVER FORGIVE..NEVER EVER FORGET!!
IBTZ!
Only until the last muslime is dead and his festering corpse fed to pigs. Or until science finds a way to resurrect the thousands of folks murdered by these villainous scum. Then any rememberance will be a mere historic exercise.
However, last I heard, we weren't making vast progress on either front, so I think it's fair to expect this memorial to be around for a while yet.
He does miss the point, but I like this:
“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...”
and
“instead of remembering 9/11 by letting them make us cry, let’s remember it while we create for the enemy its own days that will live in infamy.
Lots of them.”
While we’re at it, Pearl Harbor too...
BULL S__T! I know a number of folks would like to pretend this didn’t happen, but it di. And we’re going to make sure it doesn’t happen again, if we can.
Stop commemorating precedes stop making terrorists pay. It isn’t going to happen.
I agree with the article insofar as he is not advocating that we forget 9/11 at all. In fact, he says right in the opening of the column that he is troubled by the extent to which we are forgetting.
He just wants us to remember it more in the spirit of our own positive action, and on our own terms. My first reaction to the idea that we should stop the 9/11 commemorations was the same as most of yours, but he makes some interesting points.
By the way, I am the furthest thing from a liberal. You just don’t know me yet.
Does this guy want to chuck Veterans/Armistice Day too?
Welcome to FR.
We have so many trolls that newbies are suspect. This is especially true when they post an article then don’t reply.
Best answer yet!
He does? Here's the opening of this column
"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?"
Will have to take your word on the 'farthest thing from a liberal' stuff, but you can't say the guy's saying something he's not saying.
Big Brother
This person is taking on Winston’s job in the book. What a tool
THe author’s bio blurb:
Dan Calabrese
After serving as editor in chief of his college newspaper, Dan did reporting work for various newspapers around Michigan, including an internship at the Macomb Daily and stints with the Royal Oak Daily Tribune, the Journal Newspapers in Wayne County and the Grand Rapids Business Journal, before more than a decade in the field of public relations. He can also say with complete honesty that he was employed by a publication called the Spinalcolumn Newsweekly. (Can you?) Dan is a former candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives and has provided communication assistance to various political figures, including former State Sen. Loren Bennett, the 2002 Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor.
This guy has no personal connection to the events it would seem.
From my perspective here in North New Jersey, 9/11 will be remembered through commemorative services forever. People from my home town, my school mates, people from my college, relatives of family friends, and business associates of my family members all were killed on 9/11. Here, everyone knew someone who perished. Everyone knows someone who went to volunteer to help after the attack.
This area has a long memory, still have yearly memorials for local men lost in WWI. The historical markers for the Revolutionary War are everywhere. Community leaders, like Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen are direct descendants of the founders of the country. Long long memory.
If the rest of the country doesn’t have memorials, so be it, the tragedy while unifying nationally, wasn’t in the personal sphere. But New York is the hemisphere’s media capital, and that will dictate amplified coverage of memorials, even as the kin of the deceased grow old and pass on themselves.
Expect to see the towns in NY/NJ/CT to have memorial services for the coming 80 years at a minimum.
Wait.. to the authors... STFU. No, we’re going to continue TO REMEMBER. NEVER FORGET, NEVER SURRENDER. Dumb@$$es
You are right. The author emailed me back and said, he doesn’t want us to forget at all but to “stop acting defeated and go kick their a&$$#,”
So I was wrong and that’s that. He’s not among those others I’ve heard who saying let’s move on.
In that regard, I’m not budging.
Ok call of the kitties.
What we do when we remember Pearl Harbor is, we invite Japanese veterans. Those who attend bow low to the wreck of the Arizona. So great is our honor for the heroes and survivors of that awful day that even our erstwhile enemies come to pay their respects.
We're not there yet for 9/11. I hope the day will come when representatives of the Saudi, Afghan and Yemeni governments, among others, come to pay their respects.
On Tuesday, families of the fallen once again descended the ramp to remember the loved ones they list six years ago. Bloomberg admitted that it was likely the last time they would do so. By next year, and forever after, that will not be a site of destruction, but of resurrection. It's the way of things.
The grief does not go away, but life goes on. We can't surrender our future to our past, however worthy the memory. Mourning yesterday is why we're human. Building tomorrow is how we survive.
Here, here. And this year was very gloomy on that day. Overcast, fog, and rain.
At night, it all cleared and from Hoboken, NJ across the water the brilliance of the lights, it was hard not to feel the emotion for those that lost their lives that day.
The author to his credit has responded to my email and is not among those advocating we forget. He wants and seeks justice with a cost to the enemy.
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