...by no means should it be forgotten. However, there are other events in our history--such as Pearl Harbor--that we don't "commemorate" in the same manner as 9/11. There are parades, maybe, a little commentary on TV or in newspapers. But we hear about 9/11 every single day and so much effort is devoted to remembering, commemorating, the events of that day. A lot more people may have died on 9/11 but even 1 death is too much and we should not determine that what one event is more important that the other based on the number of people killed.
At what point will we ever stop putting so much focus on 9/11? It's harder to go forward when you're stuck in the past so much. Also, by focusing on 9/11 so much, aren't we just showing the terrorists just how much they affected and hurt us? Aren't we showing that we're psychologically weak and traumatized and scared which is what the terrorists wanted in the first place?
2006-09-08
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