Remembering 9/11

[The Mom]

BTW, it takes about 40 years to truly move on. Actually, with our increased life spans, it's now more like 70.

 

[EOD K9]

@mkt, in reference to your two posts...first post said forget it happened. Your second post said move on. I'm a first repsonder....I have lost friends over the years and a few on 9/11. We run in when people run out. There is a difference between moving on and forgetting. Moving on with one's life....fine.....but don't ever forget.

 

[mkt]

@mkt, in reference to your two posts...first post said forget it happened. Your second post said move on. I'm a first repsonder....I have lost friends over the years and a few on 9/11. We run in when people run out. There is a difference between moving on and forgetting. Moving on with one's life....fine.....but don't ever forget.

And I clarified. First post, sarcasm - second post, serious introspection.

Thanks for doing your job.

 

[jlevis]

11 years later... all I want to do is forget it ever happened. I think I'm getting close, and then one day, the media mentions it and it brings me back.

I don't, I want everyone to remember that there are evil people in the world who want to do us great harm. To forget is to let down our gaurd to become weak in the eyes of our enemies. Weakness is provocitive.

 

[Mawg]

Nobody wants to forget those that lost their lives; some would just like to forget that tragic day due to the pain it brings them. Everyone deals with grief differently. For me I want to remember that day as when I do I'm reminded of the heroism of those that responded. And for a brief time that I can remember in my short life so far, how united we were as a country.

 

[EOD K9]

@mkt, We cool?

 

[mkt]

@mkt, We cool?

We never weren't

I don't, I want everyone to remember that there are evil people in the world who want to do us great harm. To forget is to let down our gaurd to become weak in the eyes of our enemies. Weakness is provocitive.

And humility is a sign of strength. The US doesn't need to flex its muscle for the world to know it's a strong country.

 

[EOD K9]

We never weren't


Sweet

 

[jlevis]

Why is it then that on December 7, you see no Pearl Harbor remembrance threads? Or that on April 19, no Oklahoma City Bombing threads? Or the USS Cole? Or the 1998 US Embassy bombings? Or Columbine? Or the Atlanta Olympic Bombings? Or any one of the other countless acts of terrorism against the US?

You're not looking in the right places or you simply aren't paying attention. American Legion, VFW and DAV Posts around the country remember Pearl Harbor and D-day. Our Post is having a 9/11 memorial tonight. You need to go to a National Cemetery the 2nd Saturday in December for Wreaths Accross America. Or, pay attention to Memorial Day at the National Cemeteries. I prefer to attened real events rather than look to internet threads for rememberence and to pay respects. However, you might want to check the American Legion site to find what you are looking for.

 

[The Mom]

Nobody wants to forget those that lost their lives; some would just like to forget that tragic day due to the pain it brings them. Everyone deals with grief differently. For me I want to remember that day as when I do I'm reminded of the heroism of those that responded. And for a brief time that I can remember in my short life so far, how united we were as a country.

Exactly.

 

[jlevis]

And humility is a sign of strength. The US doesn't need to flex its muscle for the world to know it's a strong country.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

 

[Crush Dude!]

Will never forget where i was when this happened!

NeverForget!

 

[Lucky]

I was at my son's 1st day of pre-school when I heard about it. Normally I'd have been in downtown DC at work already. Many of my colleagues spent several hours walking home because everything was shut down or gridlocked. I learned a day or two later that one of my grad school friends was on the plane that hit the Pentagon. He actually worked at the Pentagon, but was flying to the West Coast on business.

 

[AgentB911]

Some choose to forget, and that's perfectly fine if you choose to do so. Personally, I will never forget. As a volunteer firefighter and 911 training officer, I feel that I must remember. 9/11 is a stark reminder that one never knows where and when tragedy will strike. This, and other tragic events that have occured closer to home, I will always remember.

 

[luv]

You're not looking in the right places or you simply aren't paying attention. American Legion, VFW and DAV Posts around the country remember Pearl Harbor and D-day. Our Post is having a 9/11 memorial tonight. You need to go to a National Cemetery the 2nd Saturday in December for Wreaths Accross America. Or, pay attention to Memorial Day at the National Cemeteries. I prefer to attened real events rather than look to internet threads for rememberence and to pay respects. However, you might want to check the American Legion site to find what you are looking for.

I'll bet if you asked ten random people which day was to live in infamy, eight of them wouldn't even understand the question, much less know the date.

After 9/11, people pushed to name it Patriot Day because they had no clue there already was one.

For better or worse, people just forget and move on. That's life.

In about 20 years, stores will have September 11 Patriot Day sales. And kids will be moaning about having to learn the date in history class.

My son is 21. He remembers it in the way you would if you'd been a kid...it's a little sketchy. He was glad he got pulled out of school, then he saw buildings knocked down on TV. He remembers the jumpers and remembers thinking about how it would be to get buried alive under the rubble. He remembers everyone being upset, but he spent most of his day playing video games. He also remembers that I said, "Yes, yes, drink all the pop you want" because the rule was generally that he had to ask...and was frequently denied pop. So part of that day, for him, was drinking all the pop he could and wondering when I'd put the kibosh on it, lol. (Had I known this would become part of his Memories of 9/11, I'm sure I'd have said something else.)

He understands that it was horrible...but it's just part of life for him. Sometimes, our buildings get blown up. It isn't as shocking to him as it was to those of us who lived through safer times and had lived quite a while without stuff like that happening.

And he knows that for just about as long as he can remember, we have been fighting this same fight. That's his world, the one he grew up in. As far as his experience goes, that is just how things are. We can tell him how things were back in the day, but it is history to him.

And it will be like ancient history to his kids.

 

[jlevis]

I'll bet if you asked ten random people which day was to live in infamy, eight of them wouldn't even understand the question, much less know the date.

After 9/11, people pushed to name it Patriot Day because they had no clue there already was one.

For better or worse, people just forget and move on. That's life.

In about 20 years, stores will have September 11 Patriot Day sales. And kids will be moaning about having to learn the date in history class.

My son is 21. He remembers it in the way you would if you'd been a kid...it's a little sketchy. He was glad he got pulled out of school, then he saw buildings knocked down on TV. He remembers the jumpers and remembers thinking about how it would be to get buried alive under the rubble. He remembers everyone being upset, but he spent most of his day playing video games. He also remembers that I said, "Yes, yes, drink all the pop you want" because the rule was generally that he had to ask...and was frequently denied pop. So part of that day, for him, was drinking all the pop he could and wondering when I'd put the kibosh on it, lol. (Had I known this would become part of his Memories of 9/11, I'm sure I'd have said something else.)

He understands that it was horrible...but it's just part of life for him. Sometimes, our buildings get blown up. It isn't as shocking to him as it was to those of us who lived through safer times and had lived quite a while without stuff like that happening.

And he knows that for just about as long as he can remember, we have been fighting this same fight. That's his world, the one he grew up in. As far as his experience goes, that is just how things are. We can tell him how things were back in the day, but it is history to him.

And it will be like ancient history to his kids.

People who forget their history are forced to relive it. That is being brought home to us today isn't it? Four dead in the Lybian Counsulate and a "humble" response from the Ambassador to Eygpt. I'll say it again, weakness is provocative. The attack of 9-11 was the second on the World Trade Center. What did we do about the first? We moved on.