Can someone explain why there is no national recognition of 9/11?

Question

I don't want a day off for it. I don't want another day where the banks can close and we get no mail.

3000 plus innocent civilians, police officers, fire fighters, and federal employees lost their lives on that day. One group of people on the last plane showed those cretins what American loyalty and love of our fellowman means when they sent their own plane down short of the designated target, knowing they were going to die. How many years have to go by before it becomes a national day of rememberance?

Answer 1

It probably will be at least ten years and an additional terrorist attack before America realizes that this is war.

I lost seven friends that day and there are those of us that hold personal memorials. My best friend, Todd Hill, was in NYC visiting me for a business meeting and just had the bad luck to be at the WT Marriott. I will be wracked with guilt for the rest of my life.

http://www.sept11marriottsurvivors.org/how_to_help.php

We will get a National Day of Remembrance, but it's too soon. For now we just keep pluging away with memorial funds and monuments and promise we will never forget them.

Answer 2

It's already a day that no one who was alive then will ever forget. Just like Dec. 7, 1941 and Nov 23rd, 1963.

It's appropriate that those of us who saw it live or on tv remember the dead and especially the heroes. Upon that day and in that season.

But, except for the New York Cops and Firefighters and the passengers of Flight 93, it wasn't exactly America's finest moment. 19 fanatics with 4 airplanes totally punked us as a Nation. Scared us so badly that the American People hysterically screamed for protection at any price and Congress passed the PATRIOT Act without even reading it, much less with any serious debate.

The heroes should always be remembered. For the rest of us, an official remembrance would just slow the process of living it down.

Answer 3

First understand that I am an American, and a New Yorker.
I ask that because I am going to say something pretty much unheard of. IF 9/11 were to become a national day of remembrance this is what we would be remembering.
A government with its head in the sand.
A President who read My Pet Goat, seven minutes after he was told the country was under attack. A vice president who was in an undisclosed location. Love Bill or hate him, you know he would have been on the air from Air Force One continuously, reassuring a troubled nation.
Lies told about the air quality that has sickened and killed many of the first responders that every candidate has hailed, even as they have cut spending for the health care they so desperately need.
Fighting going on about the design, location and structure of whats going to replace the buildings.
Equipment that didn't work and hadn't been replaced when it needed to be.
Every politician making his/her photo op on the pile.
Cutbacks in NY city funding for terror attacks.
Increases for pork barrel project in states that thankfully will be last on the list of Al Qaida.
Who would wish to sponsor a National Day of Remembrance that would commemorate the failure of our government on so many levels?
Our people behaved with bravery and courage, our leaders didn't.

Answer 4

I thought 11 September was being marked as "Patriot Day" on calendars as a holiday, unless I am completely mistaken. I think government offices close, but I am not certain about anything else except for some towns holding parades and ceremonies.

Answer 5

Why should we commemorate the day when our own government with Saudi's help have killed thousands of American civilians and started a perpetual war for oil without legitimate cause?

Answer 6

For now, I think it is unnecessary. It's still too new. We are remembering daily - those still mourning, those at war, those of us reading the news on terrorism. We have veterans day, and many are annoyed by it, by the glorification of war and all that that produces. I think veterans day should be used to honor ALL who died in war including this, America's self-made war - including the innocents of 911.

Answer 7

Same reason Pearl Habor day is not a holiday. If you make it a holiday, people will just use it to have a day off, they will not stop to think why. Remember in your heart and mind that is what counts.

Answer 8

9/11 should be made a holiday because it is a day of mourning for those who died and sacrificed their lives saving the lives of others.

Answer 9

Write to your members of Congress. It won't happen spontaneously. You have to get involved with the process.

Answer 10

It is to me and mine~
It should be acknowledged Nationally for sure!