As the anniversary of September 11 rolls around, as it will continue to do at least once a year for the foreseeable future, we have to prepare for the inevitable media onslaught.Appropriately-enough, it will be more intense than the recent looks back we got on a Princess' life, but as the New York Times wisely asks this morning, is it still fitting to have solemn mandatory remembrance after remembrance?
I, for one, side with some of the skeptics the Times talked to who said, in effect, enough is enough and it's time to largely move on with our lives. While we continue to learn lessons on what it's like to live in a post-911 world, and those who feel personally touched by those events have every right and obligation to observe the day as they see fit, the rest of the country should be allowed to carry on with life without a sense of guilt.
People die under tragic circumstances every day. It's kind of self-evident that every death can be interpreted as a tragedy.
I remain irked by the sainthood bestowed upon the 9-11 Families. While I can't put myself in their emotional shoes and don't know how I would react to a family member dying in the Event, the rest of us should not be guilt-tripped into letting them and only them define both how we remember and move to avoid such an event in the first place.
We're all Americans.
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para oír el mensaje de los Dan en español, ahora presione dos
es verdad, "nosotros es todos los americanos"
hahahaha
I would feel better if in addition to or instead of reading the name of the "heros" who died on 9/11 (not the firefighters and cops, many of whom were heros, but the stockbrokers who never knew what hit them), they read the names of all of the soldiers who have died in Iraq in the name of vengence. They are invisible and it makes me crazy.
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