For those of you that are so sick & tired of hearing about 9/11 & think that this country should get over it?

Question

i think that is very heartless of you to even say something like that, especially today of all days. my father died in 2001 (not 9/11, but earlier in that year) and every time the anniversary of his death comes around i still get sad and cry, that is just me, one sad story for just me and my family, but for something this large, a national tragedy, something that thousands of people have mourned, and having our lived forever changed (in even the smallest ways, like airport security, or armed national guardsmen around more), for you to just say get over it, that is just completely inhumane...if you have no more hurt feelings or sorrow over this date, and what this date symbolizes then that is you, just don't expect other people (our nation) to get over it just as easily.

what do you think, should we as a nation just push something like this to the backburner? or should we h

sorry ran out of room...kinda the last paragraph should have been...

what do you think, should we as a nation just push something like this to the backburner? or should we honor those lost, by remembering this day?

maybe i phrased this wrong, i meant that i am bothered by the people that say the nation needs to get over this, please REREAD the question...

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK I WANT PEOPLE TO GET OVER 9/11...
please re-read my question you will then realize that i am extremely bothered by those people that think our nation needs to get over this

THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK IM HEARTLESS... please re read my question using some intellect, i do NOT want this nation to push aside the tragidy of 9/11, i am annoyed by those "americans' that suggest that we do...if you doubt me, please feel free to read my other posts regarding 9/11

Answer 1

Well said.

Answer 2

I'm not one of those people, but I do think that some of the sorrow is being portrayed unfairly. At my school, at least, there was no moment of silence for the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, or for any of the anniversaries of the tsunami. Everyone talks about how much 9/11 affected them. I can understand the people who lost their family of friends, they should be sad, people that they cared about are gone. They have every right to be sad. But there are millions of people who didn't lose something all talking about "the world will never be the same" or "I changed that day" and all these cliches, which they know aren't true. I think so many people are just looking to feel something anything, some connection, to be part of a whole. This is a grief we're all allowed to share, but I don't think we should be allowed to. I didn't lose anyone, and neither did many people here. Why should they still be crying about something that, in truth didn't affect them. The tsunami killed almost a quarter of a million people, and while every year around now every cover has a 9/11 picture on it and every story on the radio is about this you don't see anything about the tsunami, which was by far the greater (and more recent) loss of life.
Also, about honoring those who died, why is there something "noble" about dying in the World Trade Center. Those people went there to do their jobs, and happened, by a horrible event of course, to not come home. But hundreds of people, probably thousands, don't come home in America everyday, and are only mourned by the people who are affected by their deaths, by their families, friends, coworkers. Why should I, or anyone else mourn someone I don't know. If I never felt them being here I can't feel the loss. Those regular people aren't honored, those who didn't die at a certain time or in a certain place. Yes, the firemen, the workers who saved people, those people should be honored, because they actually are heroes, and heroes are honored, but people who just died? No, I don't believe they should be.
And lastly, why are anniversaries so important. It's illogical, it's some dates on a wall, something determined by some scientist years ago that makes it a year, or 5 years later. Shouldn't a loss be felt equally every day. I know the days the people I loved died (Feb. 3rd, and Dec. 11, 2003) but do I break down and cry those days? No, because I miss them equally daily, whenever I think about them. Why would I associate a person with the date they died. People should be missed on the days they lived, anniversaries of visits and vacations, wedding dates and births of children. What do 365 days later have to do with anything? It's a number, nothing more or less. I'm not saying these things because I didn't feel anything about 9/11, because I wasn't afraid that a plane would fall on my head (I was 8). Maybe it is because I was 8, because I couldn't understand it then, I'll never understand it, or people's sorrow. But a 14 year old can understand loss, especially when she's felt it. Personal loss is sadness, not the loss of someone you don't know.

Answer 3

The country, the world should never get over 9/11. The last time the United States was attacked, it was December, 1941. We entered a world war. 9/11 was an act of war by a non-nation. We should never forget, because if we do, what does that say about us as a nation? Our security was shaken to the core. If this could happen, we were not safe. Remembering 9/11 is not holding this country back, but remembering what makes us American! The unending spirit that can't be defeated! God Bless America!

Answer 4

To the people who answered that the country does need to get over 9|11... How can you say that? Do you think that the families of the nearly 3000 missing and confirmed dead will ever get over it? Do you think that the nation will ever get over it? i think that we will overcome the tradgedy, but we will never forget it, and bever "get over it". Anybody that says it needs to just get put on the backburners, well, heres something to ponder: There are no backburners to life. Things happen. You can not avoid it. Just like you cannot avoid the nation comemmerating September 11, 2001. If you dont like it, move to another country. Life is real. Its not something you can watchwhen you want, then hit the -off- button when you get sick of it... Those families, and those firefights, policemen, they can't turn off the memories of that day, of the following months. Why should we?

Answer 5

I don't want people to get over 9/11. I want them to keep asking why.
For every hundred that ask why, a few decide to some serious research, and that inevitable leads to one or two who discover the horrible truth that this was an inside job. As insane as this sounds, there is no other logical conclusion once all the available evidence has been examined.
The most logical explanation of events that I have come across is at the site below.

Answer 6

We will never get over the attacks of 9/11/2001. We should not get over it. We need remember all those people who died the the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon and in that field in Pennsylvania. Especially those Firefighters, and Police Officers who raced to help save those people. We must also remember the families who lost their loved ones on that fateful day.

Answer 7

I fell we should remember it but then we should also remember the Oklahoma Bombing, Columbine shootings, Pearl Harbor and a host of others. Why only 9/11? Is it because the body count was higher or because it was done by foreign terrorists? Respect should be shown to all the terrorist activities that has happened to our country regardless of how it happened.

To those people who say that it changed our nation forever, there has been many happenings that changed our nation.

Answer 8

From the way I understand the question is that the guy who's calling it would not imagine we'd want to continuously get over it yet is basically asking if every person IS unwell of it and needs us to get over it. i'd be incorrect, yet it truly is how i'm taking the question with this answer. i imagine there are people available that are taking it to extremes, really politicians who've used it to eliminate our civil rights. There are also those who use it as a reason to hate people in different international places. And there are also people that i have heard say "why do not we basically get the f... over it". maximum persons of people experience negative about what occurred to the persons who died that day and in the event you're continuing to wade through. To me, every person with a coronary heart falls into this very last crew.

Answer 9

Havent you heard the quote, "those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"? It's not about opening old wounds, its about honoring those who died that day. I'm sure everyone is sorry you lost your father. But that doesnt negate the feelings of those who were robbed of their loved ones before they ever thought they would be. It is human nature to honor the dead. It's been that way since man lived in caves. There is a difference between forgetting and "getting over it". We need to remember so we never let it happen again.

I dont know how everyone else felt on that day but I was terrified. I thought we were about to be destroyed. I wont get over it. not as long as I live.

Answer 10

No, it's not something that the country should just 'get over'...on the other hand, I don't think that it should be another reason for us to congratulate ourselves on our resiliance or anything like that. If we observe 9/11, it should be about those who died and nothing else - as little politics as possible.

Yeah people should read questions more carefully I agree.

Answer 11

I do think your question explains exactly what is happening in the U.S. every anniversery of 9/11. Of course this will be in books and books all over in the next 10 years. Every year we will honor the ones who died but I think it will get easier each year. We cannot obviously just forget it but we will make it easier for all Americans who lost ones on this horrid day.