National holiday ?????

Question

I want to make september nation remembrance month for the people who where affected by 9/11 who could i send my idea to make it happen i have started a petition here is what my petition say

Most dont think about the 9/11 tragedy until the anniversary of it I think all september long should be national remembrance month never forget the 2,993 people who passed if you would like to see it become a national remembrance month sign your name below i mean we remember individuals who made a differance why not the thousandes who did.

Answer 1

Greetings! Most holidays, except one is created to celebrate an occasion. The one exception is Memorial Day, where we honor the men and women who have died for our country.

The United States has never created a holiday based on a tragedy. Take for example, Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 is etched in the minds of people born before 1940 and if those people had children, that day was also etched in theirs. For me, December 7 is a day that I think of with sadness and I was born in the sixties.

For any adult alive on 9-11-01, it will be a day no one will forget. I don't think it needs to be a holiday. We will remember the day forever.

Relating to 9-11, I think what we can do is take Memorial Day, which typically is used to honor our soldiers who have died defending our country, and expand it to include any person who have lost their lives to preserve humanity in the US.

That would include the police officers and firefighters who rushed into the World Trade Center to save as many people as they could before it collapsed. It would include the teachers who stood by their children when a gunperson opened fire on them. It would include the miners who pull die in the mines, bringing out coal to give this nation warmth in a freezing winter.

I am not writing this to degrade the soldiers who have given their lives for our freedom. It just seems to me that when someone surrenders their life so that another can live fits the same supreme sacrifice that men and women in uniforms have done.

To me, those who have made that supreme sacrifice should be honored no matter how they died or what their profession should be. They are all heroes to me and should be treated as such.

I know I went off the subject a bit, but I think your idea is worth this pondering.

Take care.

Answer 2

If you need a national holiday to remember 9-11, you have already forgotten and are incapable of truly remembering. As cold as this sounds, the vast majority of those who died that day were NOT heroes. Simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time is not heroic. Those that risked there lives to help others and those that retook the flight over PA were heroes.

Answer 3

what about the 3800 gis and the 58ooo in nam that died