Is it okay to be tired of 9/11?

Question

I don't want to sound mean or unAmerican but I don't see the point of making people relive the 9/11 tragedy every year. Is it okay for me to just want it to be over with?

Answer 1

I understand what you're asking. I don't think your tired on 9/11, I think you're tired of the media. Everyone will remember 9/11. It was undoubtedly on of the worst days in American history. I am tired of watching the images shown on the news all day long. I feel extremely bad for all the families who lost their loved ones, friends and co-workers, and I certainly don't need those awful images to remember. It's time to just shut off the tv!

Answer 2

I personally am very tired of all the 9/11 stuff but I believe that we, as a country, should never forget what happened that day and the days/months that followed after that. We shouldn't forget who our REAL hero's are, fire fighter, paramedics, first aid personnel from the 9/11 committee. Nor why are military is over there fighting for our freedom and others.

We one day will have our children and grandchildren ask us "what happened this day? Or why don't we hear about it anymore?" And well we will have to be the ones that tell them what happened even though we weren't there. We will know exactly what happened.

And that my dear is why we can't just be over it. It is definatly OK for you to be tired of it. You don't sound unAmerican or mean, you just sound resonable.

Answer 3

I actual have some thing to assert yet i'm specific i gets many thumbs down: till this present day there is not any one evidence who did the 9/11 element, and because then united statesa. has extra desirable it rather is inner protection and sent the troops to Iraq to invade it,, what's so obvious is that Bush has planed the 9/11,, he killed many harmless Arabs and non Arabs,, just to have the excuse of the strikes that accompanied that day, he has a difficulty with Saddam reason Saddam has took the respect of his Father and he had the prospect to take it back and that's what he did plus he mandatory a city comprehensive of Oil and organic components so he he hit 2 birds with one stone (took Iraq, took his Father's dignity back). And After that he took Iraq that's obvious that he isn't any longer leaving Iraq for ever he began giving difficulty to Syria to take the 2nd efficient Arabian us of a interior the middle east.. so he additionally killed Hariri to make Lebanon and Syria combat lower back set one yet another then he's composed of "placed peace" between them, than invade Syria too. this is Bush's politics

Answer 4

You may want 9/11 to be over with. You may want to change channels on your TV every time a station replays the footage shot on that sad day. You may even opt not to go to a memorial service. But none of that is going to make the legacy of 9/11 go away.

Every year since 9/11 I've wanted to go to a memorial service. And every year since 9/11/02, when there was an official memorial at our city hall, I haven't been able to go to one because there was none in my area. And I live in the capital of Canada. I remember how, when Bush, in his first State of the Union address after 9/11, went out of his way to thank Tony Blair and the UK, but didn't mention Canada at all, many Canadians felt slighted, especially given that the then-US ambassador to Canada, Paul Celucci, had referred to us as one of America's closest friends in a 9/11 memorial ceremony on 9/14/01. After all, if it hadn't been for all those airports in Atlantic Canada, all those US-bound planes wouldn't have had anywhere to land. And now the best people in Canada can do for the fifth anniversary of 9/11 is have one major memorial in Halifax, which most Canadians can't get to, and fly the flags at half-mast everywhere else? I've felt ashamed to be a Canadian under conditions like that. All I've been able to do is go to the Peace Tower and grieve alone, but I feel deprived of the opportunity to grieve as part of a community gathering.

Oh yes, the attacks took place on American soil, but the end titles of the movie "World Trade Center" make the point that the people who died in the attacks came from 87 nations. That truly makes 9/11 a worldwide-felt event. Also, many people in many of those countries have not directly experienced what it's like to be at war. It's one thing to notice all the fighting going on in Afghanistan and Iraq and think, "Oh, all that fighting is happening over there, so I'm safe." When 9/11 came along, it made people think very differently. For the first time for many people, war was happening right in their back yard. And that affected me deeply because I had a girlfriend in Connecticut at the time--the States had sort of become my home away from home--and it was *her* country, *her* people that were being attacked, and by extension mine as well.

Right after the terrorist attacks, Bush made a good point that we should go back to our routines, and it's right that we should, because if we don't, it sends a message to the terrorists that they have, in effect, won. But we must never, ever forget that event or the lessons we learned from it, because if we ever did, another 9/11, or even a natural disaster on a similar scale, could happen some day and we wouldn't be prepared for it.

Answer 5

Actually if you state that you respect that we remember the fallen from 911 but to replay the tragedy over and over on TV is not good for the public or the family who lost their loved ones.

Answer 6

If you had lost a loved one on 9/11, you would relive it every minute of every day.

Answer 7

Hey.......do whatever makes ya happy and no, it doesn't make you un-American. You are just "A-Typical" of many people in this country.
Americans seem to have a short memory span when it comes to lessons learned. (no wonder we still have these tragedies)
By the way......have you any idea what the date Dec. 7th, 1941 means?????

Answer 8

Remember it at all costs!!
Remember how we let down our guard, how we tolerated dangerous ideals in the name of political correctness, and how a people's intense hatred for our freedom caused so much tragedy.

Remember the victims.

Remember all of this, so it will not be repeated.

Answer 9

Is it ok to be tired of Pearl Harbor, WW I, WW II, Vietnam or any other major historic event that happened in America....its history, you will probley be telling you children or grandchildren about this one day

Answer 10

It is important to remember this event.

However, the news media and politicians would like to keep shoving it down your throat.

It is hard to drive a car forward if you only look in the rear-view mirror.