9th anniversary of 9-11

[marsupial]

What makes you think we're not over it then? Surely we can remember the anniversary and honor those who lost their lives without being told to "get over it.".

Yes, RS, explain what "getting over it" means. How would the country be acting right now if we were "over it."

[Babs]

Being from Oklahoma City and having heard a lot of this rhetoric before, I imagine he's talking about the annual media re-enactment and the pre-Nascar moments of silence and so on. It does get to the point where, outside of a very small community, the annual tributes start to seem sort of pro forma and even commercial.

But it's a very hard argument to make tactfully. It's sort of akin to telling people to "get over" Pearl Harbor or Kennedy's death.

[wuapinmon]

Viking, ignore aos ***** ******. Eles não sabem o que é perder algo precioso em uma escala cívica. Há grandes perdas e coisas para lamentar mais que os entes queridos. Você pode perder um lugar e isso pode comer a sua alma; o luto é um trabalho.

[FMCoug]

I wonder how much of this is generational? To me, stuff like WWII and Pearl Harbor are history. Same with The Kennedy and MLK assasinations. But to those a generation (or two) older, they are not. Probably the same thing with 9/11. If you were an adult and lived through it in real time (even via TV) it still has an emotional impact. If not, then I can understand the "get over it" mentality.

So for those who are of the "get over it" camp, how old were you on 9/11/01?

[Green Monstah]

I wonder how much of this is generational? To me, stuff like WWII and Pearl Harbor are history. Same with The Kennedy and MLK assasinations. But to those a generation (or two) older, they are not. Probably the same thing with 9/11. If you were an adult and lived through it in real time (even via TV) it still has an emotional impact. If not, then I can understand the "get over it" mentality.

So for those who are of the "get over it" camp, how old were you on 9/11/01?

I was 21. I remember being in shock,and it was a very emotional few weeks. But when you look what our emotional addiction to 9/11 has done, I think it justifies being regarded in a similar fashion to Pearl Harbor. We remember it on the anniversary and move on. Those who were personally affected, I have no problem with a memorial in perpetuity.

[Green Monstah]

"They do not know what it is to lose something precious in a civic scale. There are great things to grieve losses and more than loved ones. You may lose a place and this can eat your soul, the grief is work."

It's not that I don't know what it's like to have a loss. It's that I think 9/11 and our subsequent response has played right into the terrorists hands. Why? Because we're so emotionally addicted to it. Anyway, this is another one of those "Everyone versus RedSox threads" and I honestly don't want to diminish anyone's personal loss, so I should probably bow out. If you want to discuss, however, PM me.

[Jarid in Cedar]

maybe by then it will be safe to be a Muslim cabbie in NY again.

cheers.

Hey, a Space Ghost sighting.

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[wuapinmon]

I was Youtubing some WTC attack videos to show my kids. I found this one (watch it to the very end, it really broke my heart):

[YOUTUBE]RLW0jKKRXMo[/YOUTUBE]

Everything about 9/11 was heartbreaking of course, but I had never heard about this call before. If you watch it in full screen mode the text of the call is easier to read (full link).

That might just be the saddest thing I've ever heard. From that high up, if he were still alive, it would've taken about 10 seconds to fall to certain death.

[LA Ute]

That might just be the saddest thing I've ever heard. From that high up, if he were still alive, it would've taken about 10 seconds to fall to certain death.

I am choosing to believe it happened so fast he never felt anything.