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Illbay's right. Sure there is a human desire and want to seek solace and to remebrance on anniversaries of sad and tragic events. But beyond a point -- And we are way beyond that point to my view, we have allowed the grief panderers, those well-dressed and polite ghouls of mourning, to make this a franchise so that every year they will have a place for us to go to and silly -- yet seemingly profound and deep -- words to read. They have no qualms fueling the dismal, wasting and maudlin fire pots of perpetual mourning -- celebrating not the lifes of those whose days were ended that day, but by career developement would rather capture us all in some bronzed shoe perpetual trophy day of grief.

So those are the ghouls, and ghoulism is a marketable commodity, many wouold have of it. G-d help me, I will ever have AT it.

Don't turn to the dark side, Laz!

Illbay's right. Sure there is a human desire and want to seek solace and to remebrance on anniversaries of sad and tragic events. But beyond a point...

I disagree that the one-year mark is that point.

Talk to me in two, three years.

In fact, I think that this one-year mark is an important milestone. I think that the market and the economy will pick up measurably, because nothing terroristic has occurred since. I think we are at the "Let's Move On" stage, but I think we need to commemorate this date, then move on -- to a point. Remember, we still put little flags out for Pearl Harbor day, and that happened decades ago.

Anyone who starkly states that a given position on an issue such as this is 100% wrong, is usually, themselves, 100% wrong.

Let the commemorations go on, unmolested, this year. We need closure. Then we can get busy goosing up the economy.