In compliance with the rules concerning foul language as outlined by Ed Zotti in the sticky at the top of this Forum, this remark is in no way directed at any specific Doper.
The idea that this is wallowing is fucked. Completely fucked.
I’d like to Pit the nomenclature. Just today, when I didn’t read a newspaper, watch TV, and barely had a few moments to get on the Internet, I saw/heard a bunch of “We remember September 11” (church sign) and “this is the 10th anniversary of 9/11” (on the radio at an ice-cream store) stuff.
Excuse me, but I remember September 11 quite well - that’s today, it’s still in progress. To mangle Faulkner, the present isn’t dead, it isn’t even past. This is the 0th anniversary of this particular 9/11, and the 1st anniversary of last year’s 9/11, and so forth. It’s the 10th anniversary of 9/11/2001, and that’s the September 11 we’re remembering - or in my case, doing my best to ignore.
And the official designation of September 11 each year as “Patriot Day” - excuse me, if terrorists someday explode a nuke in Times Square, will we call that SuperDuperPatriot Day? What’s so patriotic about thousands of Americans getting killed in a terrorist attack?
I’m glad that an earlier generation of Americans didn’t have the crass stupidity to name December 7 “Patriot Day,” but rather “a day that will live in infamy.” Something similar would have been appropriate in this case too.
Well, I must concede that you’ve got a pretty good moral high ground for making a pronouncement like that, 'toon.
I’d be grateful to hear your thoughts on today’s Doonesbury.
Why do you hate America?
9/11 is all over Facebook and the internet. I turned on the TV to find Robert DeNiro on–but turns out it was a documentary by two French men with footage I’d never seen. So, yes, I did watch it and I’m glad I did. It was at the end that it got all glurgy, so I turned it off. I feel most sincerely for those who lost people that day which is one reason I dislike the mawkish, maudlin sentimentality exhibited around this time of year, every year.
I will be glad when the memorial is (finally) completed, but next year’s 9/11 will be the dedication ceremony of that. And then 2013 will be the one year anniversary of the opening of the memorial and ad infinitum…
I am glad we do not do this for 12/7/41 or for D-Day. At least it hasn’t become a national holiday so we can have mattress sales etc to commemorate the “patriots”.
That’s a fucking retarded assumption.
Crud. My hate America comment was meant satirically. Missed the edit window.
I did the same things today that I do any day and did not partake in the collective sharing/reflection/remembering, etc.
I don’t think anyone noticed.
No. No it isn’t. If you lost someone on 9/11, well that’s tragic. But it is a ten-year-old tragedy.
I lost my dad in a car wreck 7 years ago. That was also tragic. I don’t expect the world to come to a standstill every year on the anniversary of his death. Hell, my world doesn’t come to a standstill every year on the anniversary of his death. By this point, seven years later, I have moved past it. It still makes me sad if I think about it, but I don’t dwell on it because that’s not a healthy way to live.
Why should we, as a nation, continue to obsess over a ten-year-old tragedy? The perpetrators are dead. We’ve had our blood revenge. It is not healthy for us as a nation to cling to our rage and sadness at this late date.
This 9/11 grief-fest has turned into a nationalistic, damn near fascist exercise, and I want no part of it. (“Patriot Day?” Are you serious?)
Opening day of NFL football, so there was escape.
No, there was a mawkish pre-game 9/11 tribute, the announcers publicly announcing their grief, the red-white-and-blue ribbons on all their lapels, and in the commercial breaks, Verizon and Budweiser using 9/11 to hawk their products.
No escape.
I don’t think we’re wallowing in it. I was at work for nine hours and heard not ONE word about 9/11. Nope, it was all football this and football that, blah blah blah.
Sigh, I think I’ve got secondhand testosterone poisoning…
When people talk about 9/11, they’re talking about ‘the last ten years’. We’ve fought two wars since and lost quite a few people. There aren’t many Americans (I don’t think) that haven’t been affected personally in one way or another. It did change how we do things around here. Definitely shaped my generation (I’m 26). For me, 9/11 also means ‘Iraq’ (unfortunately!) which means ‘the most terrifying thing that’s ever happened to me as my SO was there’.
So maybe for my generation, it’s a lot more than what we were doing in class on September 11, 2001.
Sounds like someone isn’t in the 9/11 holiday spirit. 'Tis the season.
I’m glad to hear you’re looking at it that way. (No snark.)
Of course most of the ways 9/11 “changed everything” had more to do with how the U.S. responded than the actual event.
Alright. It’s a new day and time for a new drum to beat. If I hear one more thing about 9/11, even if it’s just a rehashing of what was done yesterday, I will throw something.
spoke seems like the kind of guy who gets upset if someone mentions that they are going down to the 7-11 for a slurpee. “Why do you have to shove 9-11 in my face all the time? Huh? Huh? HUH?”
I just looked. I saw an archived blog post entitled “Ten Years On” and 99% of the page was basketball content. Except for the Sprint ad, of course.
Is your standard of measurement that if 1% of a page is related to 9-11, then it cannot be escaped?
You understand that today is 9/12, right?
Yes. Haven’t I been telling you for days that this whole foofarah is going to consist of about a week’s worth of news coverage, and that it will blow over within a couple days?
What happened to 9/11 being IN YOUR FACE CONSTANTLY, MAN!?!?!