Are you sure you read my essay? I don’t advocate that we should forget.
Yes, I did and I wrote long reply, but it won’t change how you view the day nor how I view the day.
If Weeping and reading poetry and remembering seems ineffectual to you as a rememberance, then that is your choice.
I have no problem viewing this as day of loss and if I choose to remember the dead with gentleness, I will remind you that some in my family also went to Afghanistan and Iraq and exacted justice.
There is time to weep and time for war.
Pearl Harbor is my childhood and the defining moment for me. Those were military men, sailors and marines. The Towers dead were not.
Just about everyone I know knows some connected with the loss. These were moms and dads and daughters and sons going off to work that day.
I’m not going to memorialize the killers and murdererous Islamists who did this by giving it a martial tone.
And as always, this is IMHO.