Today and seven years ago

I did not write one expecint many others to write them.

Not forgotten, but Guilty of assumption.

Accepted DocG, I have no doubt in your chest beats the heart of a patriot.

I will never forget.

Nice, But you do not speak for the country. at least 1/2 the country wants to pretend it never happened.

heh, I'd have put up an article but have, until moments ago, been experiencing problems posting articles here at JU.  I finally was able to use Windows Live Writer to get an article posted, but posting from either IE or Firefox wasn't working.

With that out of the way, I have to admit I'm not sure what I would have said, even as I've had the day off, even as I sat here thinking about how similar, in many ways, today is to the same fateful day 7 years ago.  7 years ago I had the day off, had just gotten back from a vacation at the beach with my family (in the same time share/condo unit that they've rented for many years now, so the self same unit I stayed with them at just this past weekend) and had just sent my daughter off to the bus while I enjoyed an extra day's down time to unwind before knowing I'd be working the next day.

Not a single day goes by that I don't think about what happened on 9/11/01 and the events since.  I'm not going to forget it, and I expect a lot of people in the Washington DC area will never forget the images we saw on our news of the fire at the Pentagon, the smashing of two planes into the sides of the World Trade Center in New York City, and everything else that happened.  I'm sure some people would like to forget, some youngsters may never really know, and some will go on as if their lives were never impacted (because, well, for many people, their lives weren't impacted), but there will be many that do remember.

I'm one of those people, and I will always remember.

There was a time when an ENTIRE NATION was outraged at a similar attack and still mourns the day it happened, but as we age as a nation "the day that lives in infamy" will soon be just "oh yeh the day the Japanese attacked pearl harbour" but 9/11 happened just 7 years ago and pearl happened 67 years ago,

I didn't forget...but as for an article...well, I don't know what else I could say.

~Zoo

My flag flies outside. I have not forgotten. I fight the good fight.

I didn't forget.  But I'm not much of a writer, and whatever I would have said I'm sure others have already said, and put it more eloquently.

We live near Detroit Metro and Willow Run airports.  I think of 9/11 every time I see a plane in the sky (which is pretty constant).  Every year I seek out someone else's story of that day.  This year I read the air traffic controllers' stories for the first time.  It really brought back how shocking and utterly unbelievable the events of that day were.

The kids wore red, white and blue to school today and had a moment of silence.  I watched and listened to some of the memorial services and a bit of the reading of the names.  I don't know how anyone could ever forget.

I remember.

I was going to post one from a past one I did but got side swept by my daughter calling me frantic from the other side of town broke down, that and other stuff, but I didn't forget either.

Get used to it.  I see it every year on April 19, the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.  No one ever pauses in remembrance for that either.

I don't think a lot of people forget. I'm not even American and I still think about it.  My husband and I were talking about it.  But we don't just remember at September 11th. 

I really hate it when people have to make a big deal of the anniversary of something when it's something that goes on all the time.  Like love, we shouldn't need a special day to remember it.  If we really need that day in order to remember, then I think something is wrong.

The other thing, is I think that we can't make the same big deal of grief year after year.  In order to survive, people have to move on.  Keeping one's grief and rage fresh in the heart isn't healthy.  I don't think that it ever really goes away.

I think the grief process has just moved to a different stage, more private and less public.

I think a lot of people remember, as it is still an issue that comes up often. As I drove past the Pentagon last week it surely was on my mind. My concern is the loons with all the conspiracy theories that the US did it. I know well our government is capable of tragic things, but not in this case. I feel the people that are constantly raising these assertions (after all the proof) dishonor the dead from that day. Sure be angry if you thought more could have been done, but lets put the blame on the people that carried it out.

With all the leaks from out government the MSM knows when Bush and Cheney takes a dump, how could a secret as huge as the Government blowing up the twin towers remain a secret? that's what I tell the conspiracy loons.

Sadly I am getting use to it.

Many remember Jill, it's just that it is getting lip service from to many now and that is what is unnerving me.

What about December 7?

August 28-20?

July 1-3?

Yes, remember, but move on.  How can we forget all of the tragedies in American history?  Where is the line from writing sentimental articles to simply mentioning it in history class?

Yes, it was tragic.  But stay in the now, or forever dwell on the past.  Honor them, love them, remember them, but don't let the past dictate what you do in the present.

It's just words.  Always words.  It's what you feel and do that really matter.  Not just some dumb blog article that twenty people will read.

Remember the Maine!

CB.... You know I'm kidding, right? I agree people are more inclined to remember if the event made an impact on their lives. But to be fair it was only 7 years ago, only the people that were very young or unborn at the time would/should have an problem remembering.

that's is my point exactly! until just a few years ago till age caught up with them and they started dying off i large numbers Dec.7TH was always a day that was commemorated 60 years after the fact, that would be Dec 7TH 2001, something that happened Sept 11TH 2001 is just some vague memory, just 7 years later.

I was actually referring to the original article, and how it's only fair to remember every terrible thing that's happened in American history if we are to remember one.

As far as I go, I know I didn't appreciate the gravity of the situation when it happened.  I was walking to school with my friends when a girl came up to us and said, "Did you know a plane hit the World Trade Center?"

And then I said, "What's the World Trade Center?"

It was mentioned in school, but I was twelve.  I had no idea how serious the situation was until a couple years later.

And by the way, people DO remember and comemorate the events of September 11.  Everyone at my university got mass texts to wear red, white, and blue in memory, etc.  Just because nobody wrote an article on it doesn't mean nobody cares.

That's all I was saying.

Not to be contrary but what else has happened in America that was caused by foreign invaders that murdered 3,000 people? Dec 7Th 1941 killed 1500 Military and civilians, mostly military, not that it makes any difference in human lives.

I think it might be even more tragic that in Gettysburg we killed ourselves.  50,000 times. 50,000 lives, gone, in three days.  But nobody has moments of silence on that day.

I'm not trying to argue, sorry.  I see your point.  We should remember.  I just don't think that trite articles that people will forget in two days is the best way to remember those people who died.