What is this obsession about "NOT" forgetting 9-11...how could we?

Question

In our local firehouse there are huge poster urging people not to ever forget 9-11...they even have bumper stickers saying the same. My point being, how on earth could we forget 9-11. We have never forgotten Perle Harbor, WW2, WW1, the civil war, the revolution and so forth. We don't have a memory gap with these and many other historic events. So why the constant reminder "NOT" to forget 9-11 when 4500 civilians were killed and 500 Fire/police etc were also killed by terrorist. The second part of question is why fire personel seem to think that this was their loss only, they seem to see this as exclusive to them when 5 times as many private citizens were killed...I don't understand their additude.

Maybe I'm missing something, please expain

Answer 1

We have to remember these things too honor our dead and what they did for us if we don't remind ourselves we will slip into euphoria in our fast paced society. You say allot of things , tell me what you know about WW1 do you know anything about it other than it happened ? do you know who Sgt. Alvin York was and what he did, surprise me with an answer. That's just one of many i could ask. 911 There many civilian's that could be considered hero's also but the Police and firefighters went into that building knowing that they might not come out too save lives. God bless them for doing their jobs there were lives saved by those brave men and women and we must not forget them even for a moment. Yes sir you have missed something and you should work harder to try to understand and one thing you did not include was Viet Nam and i was there in 1968 and i remember that vividly

Answer 2

Never Forget means that you should never forget the tragedies that occurred outside of your country or the ones that pin you on the losing team. We can all feel sympathy for the side that we belong to or understand, but will just as easily dehumanize those who are or have been against us. That type of oppression can have complete different ways of acting but the effect will be the same; you can let the spotlight shine on what is against you and use propaganda to denounce it, or you can uncomfortably wait for the conversation topic to be changed and keep the public in ignorance. Either way, you end up with a group of people who have been educated by the media, their leaders, and their peers to show ignorance, disdain, and even hatred for someone they don't know. We host a number of African-American and Native American history months and memorials, but are we personally comfortable to discuss past wrongs? Those topics should probably never been pleasant to approach, but we can at least be grown-ups about it and stop acting as if its the elephant in the room. What about the slavery and genocide that continues today in Africa? We openly criticize it, but do we feel the need to send aid? According to most Americans, not really. Instead, we talk of how they will always been violent savages (yes, the word "savage" is used) and that efforts to help will be futile. We shouldn't care about them, it's first-world America that needs all the clean water. You see where I'm going here? Never Forget means to never forget about your own personal, cultural, or national suffering, but I hope that everyone can give it a new meaning: Never Forget that we are all people. Hope I helped <3

Answer 3

Unfortunately a lot of Americans - including a disheartening number of elected officials - seem to have forgotten the unity that followed the 9/11 attacks, that it was an attack on *ALL* of us. They have returned to their old ways, doing anything possible to tear down and humiliate our own President, thinking they can say or do anything and it won't weaken the nation or encourage our enemies to attack again. They have opposed every effort made to prevent a recurrence at home and push back the enemy abroad, cynically putting their own temporary advantage above the permanent well-being of the people they are sworn to serve. It seems, indeed, that they have forgotten already.

As to your second point - firefighters made up about 20% of the fatalities at Ground Zero, and they don't make up 20% of the general population. That was the equivalent to the FDNY of about 60 years of casualties in one day, a devastating loss to that community.

Answer 4

it was the same when people said 'remember the alamo' or 'remember the maine' - a movement to not just remember that the event occurred, but the people who did it, and that we should be relentless in the war vs. terror. if you look at this site, you will see lots of people who seem to have forgotten that 9/11 ever happened... with such questions as 'why can't we just let bin laden be?' and nonsense like that.

Answer 5

Because the press tries to downplay the terror war and act like giving up our survellience secrets is just covering any old story instead of treason.

There are a lot of reasons we need to remember, the most important of which is to keep it from happening again, and to remember those who died.

Answer 6

Always remember Bush and Pnac caused 9/11!

Answer 7

Because if we forget, those who wish evil upon America will be able to sneak another attack in a lot easier than they can when the average American is vigilant.

Answer 8

5000 people killed? I thought it was more like 3000.