Since this is the proper place for polling, I hereby submit this petition form to all Dopers. Please consider the idea, and if you feel so moved, sign it.
Thank you for looking at this site. I personally feel it is appropriate to present this to the Congress of the United States of America.
Thank you,
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absolute boneheaded stupidity
I just signed a petition to paint Steve Yzerman onto the side of a building but I don’t think I’ll touch this one. That’s what Memorial Day is for.
Where’s that Yzerman petition? Is it online?
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September 11 is already the most (over)documented event in media history. Its effects, real and inflated, have no need of further canonization. In two weeks we’re gonna see just how little a public holiday is needed to keep the flame burning as every politician polishes his shoes for a nice photo-op, and the hawks try to parlay the emotion into anti-Iraqi urgency, and the cops and firefighters’ PR agencies search their thesaurases desperately for another synonym for “hero.”
Already the airlines are giving away free flights, advertisers are taking the day off (now there’s something to celebrate!) and the Defense Dept will probably upgrade to Defcon 3. Some victim’s families will grieve in private; others will make speeches; still others will look for tax shelters for their “compensation” paychecks. Kids will use crayons to draw imaginitive new WTCs, and latent-homosexual NRA members from Lubbock will send ALL-CAPS emails to CNN saying that the new one has to be bigger, bigger by god!
And lost in the downpour of self-centered sorrow, real pain, and careful marketing decisions will be the faltering, near-bankrupt coalition governing the now “free” Afghanistan, the fact that Oklahoma City victims received no million-dollar paychecks, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decisions that the cancellation of civil liberties under the Patriot Act are unconstitutional, and the spiralling poverty, unemployment, and alienation of average Saudi citizens oppressed by their own anti-democratic monarchial government whose violations of basic rights are ignored by the US in exchange for the petroleum that we steadfastly refuse to find an alternative for.
We need a September 11 holiday like we need a hole in the head. In fact, we need a holiday FROM September 11. Those who lost someone probably crave privacy more than additional hyperbolic “Unity.”
But hey, that’s just my HO. Long live the free press, please sign all petitions that sound good to you.
Incidentally, why do you support it Cartooniverse? Why do you think we need a holiday?
Where do I sign up to NOT make it a holiday?
Sadly, with time, holidays become a time for people to go to get off work (well those in the government, banking, etc.) go spend money on retail sales using the days to drum up business, BBQ or hold events that have nothing to do with the day.
If we make Sept 11th a holiday then why not Dec 2nd (I think that’s correct) for the attack on Pearl Harbor that entered us into WWII? That is no less significant in our history than Sept 11.
I have a problem with many of the paid-off recognized holidays as it is.
Sept 11 will, forever, be this particular generation’s Pearl Harbor and as they say, we should never forget, but I completely disagree with making it a holiday. There is no reason for yet another holiday.
What about those killed in the Oklahoma City bombings? What about making that day a holiday? No? Why not? Because this was domestic and not enough people died?
Yes, Sept 11th will be in my memory for as long as I live as the most scariest day I have ever known. But it may not be the worst known to us either. Remember, yes, holiday NO.
What about making April 20th a holiday for all schools to be off, remember Columbine? This was a horrible tragedy for those involved and was covered in the news media for weeks on end and still does when something new comes up.
The 7th. The 2nd was the day my Grandpa moved to Hawaii and started working at Pearl Harbor.
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PS FWIW, no disrespect intended whatsoever, but I feel that we honor our people and our nation more by acknowledging what has happened but NOT taking the day off. People got up and went to work after Pearl Harbor and we do so today, even as we remember what happened on that horrible day. This needs to be no different.
Interesting responses, and not at all what I expected. Live and learn. 
For those of you who have posted here and are not aware, I was directly involved in that day’s events. On the 11th, I shall re-set the thread that is the narrative text that I wrote in it’s aftermath. You may all trust me when I say that I find the commercialization of all sacred holidays to be absolutely disgusting. I delete all 9/11 mail that comes my way, art work, and the likes.
I shared this idea, of all ideas, because it deserves to be a day of true introspection. Of taking a breath and reminding yourself in whatever fundamental way is most precious to you personally, that you are alive and grateful for that. That you are aware of the titanic losses, and that you recognize that you yourself have suffered a deep and grievous wound. ( I speak to the collective “you” here ).
And techchick68’s comments are painfully accurate. I meant no slight of any other atrocity, that was surely not my intent. In May I spent a week with the local fire commander who responded to Columbine. It was for reasons of another profession, not the Emergency business. Still, when he and I found out about each other, we spent a lot of hours NOT talking about movie cameras.
There’s no pecking order to grief, and I did not mean to suggest one.
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