Posted on 09/11/2011 8:59:46 AM PDT by JewishRighter
I don't know about other FReepers, but I am sick and tired of the 9/11 memorials. Maybe you read my headline and thought I am an insensitive jerk, a troll, a liberal or a lunatic who doesn't have the sense to realize the importance of marking this day appropriately. You'd be 180 degrees wrong and that's just my point. I mean I'm sick and tired of the way this day is remembered. I mean the weepy, maudlin preoccupation with the "tragedy" of 9/11. Of course, I don't mean that there should be no solemn observance to pay the proper respect to the victims and to comfort their families. I just mean the obsessive singular focus on the aspects of loss and so-called tragedy to the exclusion of what I believe should be the true American, patriotic form of remembrance.
For reference, I think we should look at the one day in our history that comes closest to the events of 9/11, Pearl Harbor. A study of public reaction from contemporary resources shows a nearly uniform sentiment: dignified rage. Recruiting offices around the country were mobbed with men who shared this dignified rage and knew in their hearts that the correct and proper thing to do is to destroy the vicious and treacherous enemy who dared to commit such wanton acts of murder and destruction on America. Beyond those who were willing and able to bear arms, the entire nation rallied around the flag and their government in full throated support of an unapologetic war to visit annihilation on the perpetrators.
Mind you, the righteous anger of America that blazed on December 7, 1941 and the unity of purpose to destroy our enemies did not wane in 4 weeks or 6 weeks or 6 months as it did after 9/11. Politicians did not tell Americans to just go out and shop or otherwise behave as if nothing had happened. Fierce American resolve from the President down to the private in the foxhole to Rosie the riveter kept burning brightly from the day of the attack until and even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were smoldering piles of ash. Setbacks along the way did not diminish, but renewed, American determination to see vengeance through to victory.
Of course, there were memorials for the soldiers, airmen and sailors killed at Pearl Harbor. Although I haven't had the privilege to visit, I understand that the Arizona memorial is a most solemn and sobering tribute to the men who died that day. But I find no evidence that Americans reacted to and remembered Pearl Harbor with such intense focus on the victims and their families or that they regarded the attack as a "tragedy". It wasn't a tragedy - it was an outrage, it was the worst kind of villainy, it was evil incarnate and Americans back then knew what to do and how to behave. And, I might add that the American culture of the day was more stoic and more dignified in their sorrow. You didn't have every single surviving family member making tear filled speeches and reading poetry. Again, for those who might misunderstand, I am not taking one iota away from their pain and suffering, but I believe the preoccupation with that part of 9/11 diminishes its significance and the national resolve and sense of purpose that are needed to finish the job of eradicating the barbarians who would visit a thousand 9/11's on us every day if they could.
Separate and apart from the tragedy of the loss of life for the victims and their families, the message of 9/11 and its remembrance on the national level is not one of tragedy at all, but should follow the example of the Greatest Generation: 9/11 should be a solemn, dignified remembrance of loss but it should also be a time to reflect on the vicious, evil atrocity that was done to our country and to renew our united determination to obliterate every last vestige of the people and the ideology that brought death to our shores.
G-d Bless America and Bring Death to Her Enemies!
I watched a bit of the memorial services today and after a few moments I just couldn’t watch anymore. When Biden got up to speak that was enough for me.
Over the last ten years we have seen the liberal democrats obstruct everything this country has done to seek revenge for the souls lost on 9-11, but today I see those very people standing before a microphone telling us how sad and full of resolve they were to seek that revenge. Bidens remarks about “awakening a sleeping giant” truly made me ill.
Since the democrats gained power in 2006 - 2011 we went from being a giant to being an apologist nation for actions taken to defend ourselves and wanting to seek justice for almost 3000 Americans lost. They used it as a photo-op. Obama and the democrats have not strengthened this nation, they have weakened our military, strengthened our enemies, destroyed our economy, and sold us out to the highest bidders. Yet they have the timerity to stand before us today with their patriotic words meant to inspire us all, when we already know who they are, what they have not done, and the damage they still intend to do. 9-11 to a democrat politician is nothing more than a photo opportunity and a lame speech full of meaningless words.
So, fellow Americans let us remember 9-11 in our own way. I remember where I was when I saw those beautiful souls leave this world. I saw it happen, I heard it, and we all lived it. It goes beyond mere love of flag and country, forgotten speeches and words that fade into nothing. I prayed to the person it all matters to. I gave them to God. I gave my country to God. That is where our inspiration and love of country comes from, and that is where mercy, love and compassion inspire us to be greater.
I will never forget. We will never forget those we lost. God bless us all.
I would never believe their transformation and will hate them unto death. I despise islam and all the left wing pukes who deny it’s evil. They are sub-human in my eyes.
Yeah, if the first word is “collective” you can pretty much guarantee I don’t care what the second word is, I’m just not going to be into it. Collective grief, collective guilt, collective soul, just not where I am.
Me too....I looked at nj.com and they had an article of the victims from NJ so I scrolled down, looked at their pic’s, got lumpy throat and closed it out.....
He advocated for our fighting for “freedom” around the world and sounded an awful lot like a young Barack Obama in 2001 when he essentially argued that it was poverty and lack of opportunity that turned innocents to terrorism.
We know full well that it tends to be not the “deprived”, but if anything middle- to upper-class Islamists with college educations who fight the infidels. It is the Islamic ideology, not global pockets of poverty, that is the root cause.
I also disagree with Bush that a neocon global war for Islamic “democracies” is the appropriate answer.
So you're voting for Ron Paul.
I agree with him that freedom is worth promoting.
His speech was about courage and sacrifice.
By the way "neocon" is a code word for Jew, which also makes me think you're with Ron Paul.
“...a fireman got up on stage and said something to the effect that Osama bin Laden could kiss his royal Irish ass.”
That fireman’s brother was Freeper BCM, Battalion Commander Moran, who died in the collapse.
We also lost Barbara Olson on that day, who was on the plane that hit the Pentagon.
Go back to Dec. 7th, 1951, ten years after Pearl Harbor. The enemy had been ground into the dirt for over six years by then (and we were in another war, thanks to joining the UN, but that’s another story). We and the rest of the world had stepped and done what was needed. We had our surprise at Pearl Harbor - they had theirs at Hiroshima. 9-11 should have been handled the same way.
Its the tenth year anniversary. So while I don’t watch it I understand some others will and thats fine with me.
The “102 minutes that changed America” show by A&E this morning didn’t shy from showing jumpers. There wasn’t one talking head in that whole show either.
How the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor was observed—or not observed
Stephen T. writes:
I’ve been wondering how Americans of 1951 must have commemorated the tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor with teary ceremonies coast to coast, anguished cries over why God let it happen, and entreaties to hand-hold with our enemies so that it will never happen again. Oh, wait. According to this interesting AP piece, they didn’t:
Pausing to remember Pearl Harbor didn’t dominate the news, nor, according to anecdotal newspaper accounts, was it at the forefront for many Americans.
On Dec. 7 of that year [1951], the top headlines told of the latest news from Korea.
Many newspapers put the Pearl Harbor anniversary on their front pages, but they squeezed it in among the dozen or so stories commonly crammed on a page in those days. Many relegated it to the bottom of the front page.
LIFE, a weekly magazine that was among the most prominent publications of the time, made no mention of the anniversary in either its Dec. 3 or Dec. 10 editions, said Emily Rosenberg, a history professor at University of California, Irvine.
The only mention of Japan, Rosenberg said, came in a story about American servicemen from the Korean War seeking respite at Japanese baths attended to by “’plump Japanese girls in pale blue play skirts.’’’ There were several ceremonies in Hawaii to remember the attack.
The one at Pearl Harbor was only for the Navy, which had recently installed a small platform and flagpole at the sunken wreck of the USS Arizona. Other memorials, including a Catholic mass at a cathedral and a ceremony at a national cemetery in Honolulu, remembered the Pearl Harbor dead alongside those killed in World War II and the Korean War.
Some even had trouble remembering Pearl Harbor at all.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/020440.html
But it happened in NEW YORK— the most self centered and overly dramatic 50 square miles in the universe. So, they would be befuddled by your reaction.
Sorry, pal. I’m not for Ron Paul or anti-Semitic.
And isn’t it so nice of you to accuse me of being either or both!
(Also, good luck with all those US-created-through-war Arab democracies stopping terrorism...)
However, remembrance is important and I've been going through some youtube videos made by amateurs and people on the street who were THERE. The raw emotion is still there, not the artistic triped-up version.
And I've seen many, many fresh comments there by kids over the last couple of days who say things like "I had no idea what really happened until I saw this video" (thus showing the importance of re-living it lest the younger generataion forgets) and some of the surprising passion from the kids comdemning the terrorists with fresh vigor becauase they have been prevented from seeing the real pictures on TV all these years and are seeing them on Youtube for the first time.
10 years on it is appropriate to have remembrance IMO...but I agree not the garbage-remembrance which comes when events are led by liberals. It is also appropriate to remember that in the last 10 years we have gotten Bin Laden, Hussein and TENS of THOUSANDS of hardened terrorists who will never live to perpetrate another horror.
There is only one 9/11 memorial I want:
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man’s chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below-
With the sword and the peacock banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris-
The price of white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
I appreciate your concern, but I'm not sure what your comment about "supporting DEATH" means.
I don't supply death with money or necessities, I don't furnish corroborating evidence for it, occasionally I must bear the weight of it, and I'm sure someday I will not be able to withstand it.
Hope that helps.
:)
It’s exactly what I thought. New Yakkers continually blab about how tough New Yakkers are, living in such a maelstrom of crime, violence and all. Then the moment someone criticizes you New Yakkers and your city, you go sobbing into the bathroom and weep. What a bunch of hooey. This should be your newest marketing slogan: Stay away if you’re going to hurt our feelings.
Your essay is masterful, and I agree wholeheartedly.
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