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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYesterday, I intentionally missed all of the ceremonies on TV
Didn't watch a damned minute of it on the cable news shows.
I even made sure that I was doing something durning most of the National Anthem before the football games.
The last thing that I needed was to be reminded of what happened to places that I've been to on that day (7 1/2 years working in the Pentagon and multiple trips to the WTC during NYC day tours).
All the subsequent war and strife that came afterwards can't be washed away by selfishly sentimentalizing it.
Considering the fact that our broken press had to sensationalize a simple overheating episode, I'm glad that I did miss it.
wncHillsupport
(112 posts)I was working at NIH in Bethesda, outside DC, on 'the day' and saw the Pentagon smoke as I drove home on the beltway.
I don't watch annual or periodic replays of tragic events. We have so many since just 2001 that there could be an all-day commemoration a few times a month. I also saw the awful things happening, on TV, in LA during Katrina and I still have those pictures in my mind too. Along with the 9/11 events. Oklahoma, all the multiple murders, and so on and on.
I probably sound insensitive and don't mean to, but reviewing the actual videos of these tragedies is just not something I can do.
Just sayin'.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I, like you, purposefully avoid the jingoistic rah rah rah.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I'm also sick of hearing, "Never forget!" How the fuck does any decent human being forget something like that?
llmart
(15,540 posts)who was in office when the attacks occurred.
That's what I think we should never forget.
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)I intentionally schedule my annual vacation time during the week of 9/11. I go to ground, and stay (mostly) unplugged.
Because I work in an airport, people always ask if I do that because I'm scared of something happening. No, it's because I'm tired of the ceremony, I'm tired of hearing Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American" blasted over the airport PA and everywhere else, setting off anxiety and panic attacks from childhood that have nothing to do with 9/11. And most of all, I'm tired of remembering all the shit that came after. I lived through that day and everything after, I don't need a reminder.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I work at a flight training center on DFW Airport property. I always take the day off, too.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I can't watch this drivel any more. Nothing of substance, no "reporting", no "journalism", just sensational stories that are not even investigated. No investigative reporting at all. The masses want drive up journalism, get it quick, easy and cheap. I can't participate and sleep at night.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)It makes me ill to see it being used as yet another for cheap sentimentality and chest-thumping patriotism.
No one ever says that the Middle East is now permanently screwed up because we decided war was the way to end terrorism. Clearly that hasn't worked so well, yet we continue to believe it's true. There is nothing worse than righteousness in a course of action that is clearly wrong.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)for many of the same reasons.
(Yes, I know I should avoid Facebook the other 364+ days, too....)
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)there's never really a bad day to avoid it.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)Much better way to spend the day.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)The entire world rose as one in sorrow and solidarity with the US on that horrible day.
There were candle-light vigils in Tehran for the victims, for Pete's sake.
And how did we respond to all this kindness?
We became the Nazis.
We attempted to assuage our anger and humiliation with violence and open, naked greed.
9/11 was the beginning of the end for this country...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)I hate the sentimentality, patriotism and untold truths about 9/11 and the Bush administration. It's sickening. I'm really sorry for those who died and their family, and maybe it's comforting for them. But it tends to annoy me more than move me.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts).
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)3000+ people died that day and many injured for life. Not to mention the millions lost to a needless war which has never ended. No I'd rather see the the Bush / Blair administrations held accountable.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)the piss poor response by our leadership and the subsequent wars of choice that have served to bankrupt the country really get the blood boiling.
And now the repubs are running one much worse than Shrub.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Big parts of the official narrative just don't add up. The Commission looking into it, which only happened after heavy pressure from widows and others who lost love ones, was a joke.
We do know who it really, really benefited and who it enriched.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I let the DVR record for at least an hour on each to skip it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)profound to say about it that hasn't been said 100 times.
At least people have stopped asking what it was like to be here when it happened.
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)Same here.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)lifetime. I don't understand why people celebrate the date of a death. Celebrate is not the right word. Maybe remembrance? I have a sister in law who does that with a son who committed suicide. I prefer to remember when a person was born. When a person came into my life. My Mother, Father ans Sister are dead but I sometimes forget the date. I do remember thier birthdays and celebrate the day they came into my life.
We need more happiness and joy I our lives. Everyone does. Even people in sad situations of poverty among other problems need joy. Sometimes even death can bring relief to a person who is suffering and near death.
My Sister was in a hospice and all she wanted was to remember the good thIngs. She confessed to me that she wished we could have been closer in age so she could have related to me better. I told her that it doesn't matter. All that mattered was the good times and the fact that she was my Sister and I loved her.
Peace to all my DU friends.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)After a while, it's time to gear it down a little bit. Just my opinion.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)It doesn't mean I don't respect the day or the sacrifices people made.