Posted on 09/11/2011 8:59:46 AM PDT by JewishRighter
I’m not quite with you on that. I think a lot of firefighters kept going into the buildings and climbing those stairs after it was extremely dangerous and that is beyond the call of duty. Otherwise your formulation means that no soldier is a hero since he/she is just doing their jobs.
I remember 9/11 like I do 12/7.
I agree with your post.
I tend to agree with you that 9-11 memorials are becoming overdone.
Besides Pearl Harbor another date that is remembered is D-Day June 6, 1944.
Maybe in time 9-11 will be remembered in the same fashion as Pearl Harbor and D-Day.
Are you my long lost brother? I feel and think exactly the same.
Thank you for posting this. The media is just focused on the sadness, not the rage that should be at the forefront of this nation's mind.
The same maftir (closing paragraph) is read the shabbat just before or after Purim (about half a year before and after this time of year - I forget whether it is always before or always after, or sometimes one or the other).
ML/NJ
Yes, Bush’s speech was, I guess, better. But he wedged in his own political message—with which I firmly disagree.
He advocated for our fighting for “freedom” around the world and sounded an awful lot like a young Barack Obama in 2001 when he essentially argued that it was poverty and lack of opportunity that turned innocents to terrorism.
We know full well that it tends to be not the “deprived”, but if anything middle- to upper-class Islamists with college educations who fight the infidels. It is the Islamic ideology, not global pockets of poverty, that is the root cause.
I also disagree with Bush that a neocon global war for Islamic “democracies” is the appropriate answer.
Are you sure you read my essay?
Are you sure you read my essay? I don’t advocate that we should forget.
All I can remember is how fast NY turned on President Bush and said he did it. I remember how they condemned him for fighting back like they asked him to. That’s what I remember about NYC.
Pray for America
I agree with JewishRighter. Those who charged into those burning buildings were heroes.
But that doesn’t mean the way we’ve politicized and sentimentalized 9/11 since is the way to honor them.
It is designed to make the young never forget. Old jerks like us won’t forget and do not need it.
Drugged up liberals need the drama and the children glom to edu-tainment.
It's a memorial. The people being memorialized were slaughtered by Muslims. I think it's a good think not to forget it.
Once upon a time in America, grown men and women kept their most passionate grief private and observed their loss with solemnity in public.
The event I'm watching at ground zero is solemn.
I just think, as others have said, it’s come the point where we are wallowing in it.
Sorry. We have a long tradition of memorial events in this country. I think that's a good thing.
Apology accepted and thanks for taking the trouble to read the rest.
Well written ‘Vanity’, and I tend to agree.
Oh, we absolutely agree that the atrocities of that day should be exhibited to ensure that none of us forgets how evil these bastards are and to teach the new generations to come.
I agree completely. I mourned with the rest of my nation in the months after 9-11. Then it was time to fight back. To honor the dead by not being defeated and broken. By living.
Must be a Jewish thing.
Are you sure you read my essay. I don’t advocate that we stop remembering, but how we observe these days.
Are you sure you read my essay? I don’t advocate that we stop remembering, but how we observe these days.
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