Posted on 09/13/2007 11:21:05 AM PDT by Invisigoth
Two days removed from the latest 9/11 anniversary commemorations, I wonder if it’s too much to ask that this anniversary be the last.
Are we going to do this every year forever?
America loves anniversaries, and the news media find it easier to write stories about them than to report what’s happening, say, now. But the somber, sad, reverent ceremonies every year are not helping America win this battle. We don’t need any more moments of silence or roll calls of the dead. We’ve done it every year for five years now.
Enough already.
There are those who would like to see America forget 9/11 altogether, because the wellspring of patriotism and national resolve it inspired gives these folks the heebie jeebies. That’s not where I’m coming from at all. I think we’ve already lost our sense of what happened that day to an alarming degree, and the somber, annual ceremonies are likely exacerbating the problem.
By staging these events every September 11, we are elevating the terrorists’ accomplishment far beyond what it deserves, and far beyond that which serves our national interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at northstarwriters.com ...
So newbie, are you for or against??
I’d like to know too.
Do you like cheese?
Is this what we do when we remember Pearl Harbor? I don’t think so. It’s a reminder of things that can happen if we go to sleep. Our people need to remember and the people that did this to us on 9/11 need to remember what followed.
Based on this post, I’m for stopping commemorating FreeRepublic signups from 9/10/2007.
Drop Dead
Yup.. not only because its the right thing to do.. but because it ticks off the left so much..
We need always to remember (and commemorate)...always...always...always.
THe war is only beginning. It is going to last decades — enough to rival the 30 Years War or even teh 100 Years War.
Every AMerican, indeed everyone on the planet needs to be reminded each year of those who attacked us, and why that enemy must be eradicated.
Damn right!
Do you smell that?
Well, YOU obviously have lost it!
We do not forget our fallen.
Invisigoth stupid since Sep 10, 2007
We need to talk about your sister...
Stop Earth Day first and we can consider it
We still commemorate Pearl Harbor Day.
Not replying only makes it worse.
Trolls NEVER respond to direct questions.
So what is being said is that we should stop with the Pearl Harbor commemoration also. Both were an attack where a large number of our fellow citizens died and we will always remember them. ALWAYS!
Yes, it is too much for you to ask us to forget. Never forget!
By the way............muslims would love for us to forget. But........they don’t know the American people. That’s why we have war memorials, so we can and do remember those that have died for us.
Please tell us you are not another factless libtard...if so...
the ZOT shall come!
IBTZ
The left armpit reveals another wild hair.
Bingo...
Of course they’re going to talk about it. Our focus should not be on what they did to us, but on what we have done to them, and still need to do far more of. If we really must do the anniversary thing, let’s mark the day the Taliban fell, or the day we captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or the day Saddam fell, or the day Khadafy gave up his weapons, or the day we killed Zarqawi, or the day we convicted Jose Padilla, or the day we opened Guantanamo . . .
Here’s my email:
Dear Dan,
As for your column, I’ve already forgotten it. Please flush it with the other waste.
We will never forget.
This is America. People are free to do, or not do, whatever they want within the framework of our laws.
As for me and mine ...
9-11-01
NEVER FORGET!
Those who forget... tend to repeat...
TRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Am I IBTZ?
Invisigoth, if you agree with this sentiment, you and the author of this can do whatever you want on the anniversary of 09/11. Let those of us who wish to remember and to honor those innocents who died commemorate it any way we choose.
Or, the 4th of July for that matter.
This is an incredibly simplistic view of that profound and history altering day.
I contend that the anniversaries are not a day we dedicate to our enemy but rather a day where we remember those patriots who were innocent victims of the global war on terror. In additiion, we celebrate our great national pride, spirit, and resolve as the fight is being taken to our enemy with the passion it deserves as a result of this terrible day.
In conclusion, Mr. Calabrese should become more familiar with cliches because those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Should we get another Democrat administration, expect the slashing of military and intel budgets along with large walls erected to divide and separate our intelligence communities.
So, no Dan, we will not stop commemorating 9/11 now or ever.
Tell this to the families who lost loved ones. Shaking my head at you...Seems you post yet can’t reply hmmmmmm.....
It’s sophistry...
This piece has an agenda and it isnt anything above board.
Dan, Dan, Dan.....did it ever occur to you that these commemorations serve to re-enforce our determination to bring these perps to justice and to never allow it to happen again? If some choose to forget let them but don’t ask us to give up something that honors all those who fell that day and continue to this very day.
My wife’s family celebrates the death dates, as well as the birthdays of her relatives (dead and alive). All tragedies in their lives, actually. I always thought that was a little nutty; we acknowledge the 1st anniversary, then move on. Talk of the dead after that is about all of the good things, rarely is a death date mentioned. Not exactly analogous, but this country stands for so much good, it seems a shame to constantly look back at its tragedies and have them overshadow all of the good things. That doesn’t mean to forget that bad things happened, just move on.
NEVER FORGIVE..NEVER EVER FORGET!!
IBTZ!
Only until the last muslime is dead and his festering corpse fed to pigs. Or until science finds a way to resurrect the thousands of folks murdered by these villainous scum. Then any rememberance will be a mere historic exercise.
However, last I heard, we weren't making vast progress on either front, so I think it's fair to expect this memorial to be around for a while yet.
He does miss the point, but I like this:
“If we really must do the anniversary thing, let’s mark the day the Taliban fell, or the day we captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or the day Saddam fell, or the day Khadafy gave up his weapons, or the day we killed Zarqawi, or the day we convicted Jose Padilla, or the day we opened Guantanamo...”
and
“instead of remembering 9/11 by letting them make us cry, let’s remember it while we create for the enemy its own days that will live in infamy.
Lots of them.”
While we’re at it, Pearl Harbor too...
BULL S__T! I know a number of folks would like to pretend this didn’t happen, but it di. And we’re going to make sure it doesn’t happen again, if we can.
Stop commemorating precedes stop making terrorists pay. It isn’t going to happen.
I agree with the article insofar as he is not advocating that we forget 9/11 at all. In fact, he says right in the opening of the column that he is troubled by the extent to which we are forgetting.
He just wants us to remember it more in the spirit of our own positive action, and on our own terms. My first reaction to the idea that we should stop the 9/11 commemorations was the same as most of yours, but he makes some interesting points.
By the way, I am the furthest thing from a liberal. You just don’t know me yet.
Does this guy want to chuck Veterans/Armistice Day too?
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