i wish people would please try to remember that while that was a HORRIBLE tragedy, A LOT of people are actually trying to celebrate the day of their birth on that very same date.
It makes it SO difficult to celebrate being born and being alive on that day when so many people are in mourning and the news,media are shoving the terrible memory in everyone’s face over and over and over again pulling the scab off the wound every single freaking year.
From what I learned about grief, you’re supposed to celebrate the deceased person’s LIFE and accomplishments…you aren’t supposed to focus on the moment of their death over and over for the rest of your life.
That’s exactly what happens EVERY single year on 9/11 and the days leading up to it. All we do as a society is focus on how those people died rather than focusing on what they did while they were living. Yeah we tell all the hero stories and stuff but other than that, all you see all freaking day is images of the planes hitting the towers and all the “where were you when it happened” stories.
Had I lost a loved one on 9/11, I would loath seeing the event replayed 10,000+ times all over every single news channel, every single search engine main page, etc.
Not to mention all the countless people, like myself, sharing a birthday with that day. All I wanna do on my birthday is hide in my closet and not come out til it’s over. Then when you tell people what your birthday is, you get a sympathic or amazed “wow.that’s awful…that day you were born…terrible day.”
WTF. UGH.
Yes it was a horrible moment in history and my heart goes out to those who lost someone dear to them. But can we stop reopening the wound and pouring salt in it every single year??? I love all the memorial things and heartfelt ceremonies honoring those lost but I guess I just get so sick of the media and news outlets making a profit off showing horrific images and retelling the events of that day over countless times.
I don’t even know what my point is. I’m just sick of it.
I will never forgive you. I’m reminded of these stupid complaints about 9/11 every time I open this thread… waaah, waaah. Someone should delete this thread because I am incapable of ignoring it on my own. Why do people have to complain so much when it causes me a very, very slight inconvenience?
Ravenman, maybe if you read the OP out loud to yourself, slowwwwly, it will help you process it. On the other hand, maybe you are just stupid.
My concern is not for my own personal convenience or peace of mind (though the 9/11 overkill is annoying). My concern is what this obsession says about our country, and whether it is an unhealthy obsession for us to indulge. Lingering national obsessions with past grievances have not, historically, led to good things.
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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.
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I think you are wallowing in the wallowing over 9/11. I managed to get through the entire weekend without any references to 9/11 and watching only 2 shows concerning 9/11 (both of them dealing with either the Truther CTers or forensic details of why and how the various buildings collapsed…ammo for when the next CT nutball roams in with a video that we all just have to see about the vast coverup and conspiracy of 9/11, blah blah blah). No one forced me at gun point to attend any memorial ceremonies. I managed quite nicely to find plenty of non-9/11 shows to watch on TV. I wasn’t coerced into buying any flags or other mementos of 9/11, nor sign any petitions, nor anything else. The only commercial I recall getting on my radar for the whole weekend that was 9/11 related was some gold coin (plated of course) they were selling on History Channel to commemorate 9/11 with some sort of ship thingy that flipped up…and I’ve seen that commercial dozens of times outside of this weekend. Other than that it was just ads for shows on other channels that I didn’t watch (though that’s where I got the teaser for the best show on the building forensics I’ve seen to date…9/11: The Towers and the Pentagon).
Well, it’s over with now so I assume you can calm down and get back on track to gear up for all of the Thanksgiving and Christmas specials that will be rolling down the pike soon.
The difference being that at least those are supposed to be celebrations. Celebrating something joyous is perfectly cool. Celebrating a tragedy is fucked up.
Celebrating? Who celebrated? Because if it was supposed to be a celebration somebody owes me a goddamn Blown up Twin Towers Day prezzie.
Fuck me, missing the boat again. I was all somber and reverent of one of the most powerful and emotionally important moments of my generation if not the history of the United States.
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Ooh, “I know you are but what am I.” A classic.
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Huh. Re-reading what I was saying there in the context of the discussion, I’d have gone with the classic ‘never start a land war in Asia’ thingy…never would have gotten the ‘I know you are but what am I’ bit.
What does it mean? It means I watched 3000 people murdered in front of my eyes. Live.
If that doesn’t have a profound emotional impact, whether you personally know the people or not or whether they are fellow countrymen or not, then you are a hopeless fucking misanthrope
