Do you think September 11th should become a national federal holiday?

Question

I was watching the news the other day and this was mentioned as a possibility in the future. I was wondering what everyone thinks about it?

Answer 1

Yes, but make it a holiday to honor not only the victims, but all
fireman & policeman, who every day put their lives on the line
for all of us. There is a 14 year old boy who lives in New York
who has a petition for this, it was circulated on the Internet..

Answer 2

Frankly, I think we have enough holidays.

December 7 didn't make it either. I suppose I could be convinced to support the issue but I'm not certain what it would take.

As I told a friend who supports the idea, if you are serious, set up a web site and take the temperature of the nation. You might end up spearheading something significant.

Answer 3

Let us understand that some 3,000 people were killed in those 'incidents', while another 25, 000 americans are killed each year at the hands of other Americans, ie homicide.

Let us not fall victim to the truth, ie a truth that does not look at the whole picture.

Let make Easter the day the many innocent people of this world are killed unjustly !

Answer 4

No. The reason, in my mind anyway, 3000 children die each day globally from poverty / malnutrition. Do we remember them? No.
A day to remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks would be another subtle re-enforcement, for the US government, to promote it's wars with whomever they THINK might harbor a terrorist organization. (We all remember the WMD that are STILL being looked for in Iraq?).
We have enough of holidays throughout the year int erupting our daily working lives. If people want to 'celebrate' this type of day then why not go for a Global 'remember the dead from terrorist actions' day. After all, the US is not alone in its' population being attacked on this level.

Answer 5

Not as a holiday. do you really want to celebrate 3,000 deaths? It should be a national memorial Day.

Answer 6

The big 'ISM' at the Gate
"When the majority of people in a predominantly
Christian society cease to worship God, the result is
fascism.
When the people in a predominantly Jewish society
cease to worship God, the result is either communism
or capitalism.
A predominantly Christian society is concerned
primarily with establishing a political ideology,
whilst a predominantly Jewish society is concerned
primarily with establishing an economic system."This
suggest , led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

The big 'ISM' at the Gate
If you look at the past 100 years or so, you will see
plainly that there has always been an "ISM " at the
gates.
"These evel patterns or buds have sprouted from the
same seed but different branches of big 'ISM'- called
Senate". By Johan Toland, "Adolf Hitler" (Garden City)
N.Y,Double Day,1976 p 702 - or Eric Margolis in
Toronto "Sunday Sun"2002.

The old idea of controlling the people and increasing
government power by warning of an "enemy at the gates"
dates back to the Roman Empire, and probably well
before that. It is among those tactics that are
obvious to any dishonest person coveting power.

The first isms at the gate were socialism, pacifism
and anarchism;Capitalism, then came fascism; next was
communism; and now it's terrorism. The advantage of
all the ims is that they appeal directly to another
ISM – nationalism, which is about the only one of the
ISMS the great mass of people can comprehend.

Most people can't tell you differences between
socialism,Capitalism, communism, fascism or anarchism,
but everyone knows who he or she is, and who isn't one
of the group. "By God, I'm an American, and those guys
ain't."

Don't feel insulted. The human brain is wired to
recognize differences. Be honest. If you're white and
you meet a black person, what first registers? His
blackness. And vice versa. The priority of noticing
differences was probably a needed survival skill when
humans lived in caves. Most primitive tribes lived by
the rule that every stranger was an enemy until he
proved himself to be a friend. As a matter of fact,
that's still a good rule to live by.

What Americans ought to realize, however, is that the
Establishment fans the fear about the current ism in
order to increase its power and make money. You should
know, for example, that American capitalists and
American capital built a great deal of the Soviet
Union's infrastructure, even long after the Cold War
started. In fact, while Americans were dying
presumably to fight communism in Vietnam, the U.S. was
trading with communism in Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union, and protecting it in Cuba.

Establishment types never allow principle to interfere
with their money-seeking. I recall a quote in a major
financial newspaper by the then- president of one of
America's largest banks. He had been asked if he felt
uncomfortable making loans to communist Poland. "We
don't care what kind of government they have," he
said, "as long as they pay their bills."

I cherish that quote, along with one from an anonymous
Kuwaiti who, when asked why he was not fighting to
liberate his country from Iraq, replied: "Why should
I? That's what our American slaves are for."

The war on terrorism is phony. True, bin Laden's boys
were able to hit us pretty hard, thanks to luck and
our own government's incompetence. But that was one
organization and one hit. President Bush, after he got
his instructions from the Establishment, declared war
on every underground organization in the world, 95
percent of which were not even thinking of us, much
less thinking about attacking us.

Colombian rebels are against the Colombian government;
Irish Republicans oppose British control of Northern
Ireland; Palestinian groups are fighting Israeli
occupation; and so on and so on. People employing
guerrilla-war tactics to seek independence, an end to
occupation, the overthrow of a dictator or to attain
some degree of autonomy are not our enemies.

Bin Laden is our enemy, and we should have
concentrated on him. As it is, President Bush's
declaration of war on terrorism (a mistake on its
face, because terrorism is a tactic, not a state) sent
a message to every head of state in the world: If
people oppose your government, call them terrorists,
and you have our blessing to kill and torture to your
heart's desire.

The question is, When are we, the American people,
going to stop being saps and realize that the foreign
devils du jour are always designed to distract us from
the ills, sins and injustices taking place in our own
country?

Answer 7

Yes especially for New York and Washington D.C. areas. I think most people think the best time to mourn lost is on Memorial Day. It would be a good idea to seperate the days and people can mourn on the day they actually lost.

Answer 8

Well, we have a day to remember the Pearl Harbor victims, am I correct?

So a day to remember the victims of 9/11 would seem justifiable.

Answer 9

Celebrate death? You only make the culprits remember the atrocity they did and they would be the only ones smiling. A holiday is for celebration.
The date will never be forgotten so there is no need to emphasise it.

Answer 10

i think it should be cuze it is one of the most thing that happen not the fallin down thing the buildin that mayed that thing and it was just bad what happen to history is history that failed i think it sholud be yes lets have a vote all in