9/11 - Get over it!!!

[DrumsGoBang]

People die all the time. Building blow up. Get over it.

Hey I love the USA, but why as a nation do we have to memoralize everything? You can't morn a death forever. Time to move on and rebuild. People die all the time and there aren't memorals to every murder victim. We should be celebrating life and rebirth especially at a time like this.

Having said that, blow up Iraq!!!

[StPetersburgHoya (Inactive)]

That was a tasteless joke.

[DrumsGoBang]

Not a joke, thats what I believe.

[GUHoya07]

Well, you're tasteless and your post was completely unnecessary.

What a classy way to end it too, no wonder the rest of the world is getting sick and tired of the American mentality and lack of world understanding.

[AustinHoya03]

Oh yeah, and the British should dynamite Trafalgar Square and the Cenotaph, and the French should take a wrecking ball to the Arc d' Triomphe. Why don't we just dig up Arlington Cemetery, with all its tiny remembrances of people who have died, while we're at it? Or why don't we just forget about the concept of nationhood? You must have hated going to school in DC, what with all the idiotic memorials to dead people who didn't really matter at all.

[HoyaNCCT]

Drums - you are clearly not from the NYC or the WDC areas. Going up to the roof of LXR (my building at the time) on 9/11 and watching the Pentagon burn while I wondered if my father (formerly of Cantor Fitzgerald and working in NYC) and many relatives and friends that worked in the Twin Towers were safe was, at that point in my life, single handedly the worst feeling I had ever had in my life. That was seconded only by working with my parents a few weeks later as we decided who would go to which funeral on the second Saturday following as we wanted to have our family represented and pay our respects to all of our friends but, unfortunately, with many funerals overlapping people had to pick and chose.

Now, you're right I am to a certain degree "over it." I don't think about those times nearly as often. Nor should I - you learn to live with and internalize these things. You learn valuable life lessons in the face of adversity. However, unless you are Job, many of us in the USA rarely live in the face of that sort of tragedy.

So why do we memorialize? Perhaps it’s because we humans get caught up in the moment and we live in the present. However, there are too many lessons that might not be remembered if we simply just "get over it."

Would we remember those that past away? Those of us that knew them personally probably would. That said, when I participated in the Freedom Walk this weekend in DC, I was reminded of the millions of people effected by the tragic events of 9/11; was reminded of the unity that this country exhibited after the attacks; reminded of the ability of our country to face adversity and create something positive out of the worst of human evil.

So, maybe we should get over it and maybe I'm too much of an optimist. However, I think that being reminded of these things once a year - for those of us that take solace in the remembrance - isn't the worst thing for any of us. For those of you who don't want to remember and just move on, well, why would it bother you if others put up a memorial? Seems like it affects you on some level, otherwise, why would you care if there are memorials all over the place? Why can't you just get over it?

Drums, I hope that you're ability to delete emotion and walk through the world stone faced takes you far because compassion hasn't taken anyone anywhere before, has it?

[Nevada Hoya]

Well said, HoyaNCCT.