Reality check: So I'm on the phone with a co-worker based in Canada,

hedgehog

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:51 AM
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Reality check: So I'm on the phone with a co-worker based in Canada,

And he says" What's today's date?"

Aside from those personally involved (as opposed from those "traumatized" because they watched it all happen on TV) isn't it time to let September 11 fade into history?

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tazkcmo

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:54 AM
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1. No. n/t

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monmouth

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:54 AM
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2. I do agree. Let the families and friends involved with those terrible

losses do their thing on their own. I believe they are a large group who interact with each other.

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Bob Dobbs

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:55 AM
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3. Not until the "perpetraiters" in the White House are brought to justice.

Never forget.

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annarbor

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:57 AM
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4. Not for me....

Today I flew my flag for those that died and I can't forget the sadness and horror I felt seven-years ago.

I'm ok with that. I don't think many in this generation will forget September 11th.

Ann Arbor

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lapfog_1

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:57 AM
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5. When I was a kid in elementary school

in the early sixties, Pearl Harbor (Dec 7, 1941) Day was almost like a national holiday. And this was 20 years after the event.

The Neocons want 9/11 to be just like Dec 7th.

The "start" of a WAR against (small font)radical (large font) ISLAM.

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cabbage08

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Thu Sep-11-08 11:58 AM
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6. Never forget n/t

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SammyWinstonJack

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:02 PM
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7. As if we could or would.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:05 PM
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8. A couple of generations from now, it will be a noted date and possibly a revered date in theory, but

I suspect for many people it will have little or no emotional connection. Just those families who were affected and who passed their stories onto the later generations.

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Toucano

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:05 PM
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9. No, it won't fade into history.

But we can probably stop the annual memorials soon and just commemorate milestone memorials like the 10th, 15th, 20th, etc.

As long as there are people alive who remember it, it will be memorialized.

A hundred years from now, it will probably be used to sell cars and linens for a post back to school retail marketing ploy. Our decedents will have the day off work and use it to get drunk on the inferior beer and liquor that the government will include as part of everyone's pay rations.

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dragonlady

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:12 PM
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10. It occurred to me today

that we've lost 4,000+ military people in the unnecessary war so far (not to mention all the Iraqis, nor our soldiers with life-altering injuries). If we wanted to commemorate their loss, what date would we choose?

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xxqqqzme

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:23 PM
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11. I'm truly disgusted that * &

the rest of the publicans continue to treat it so shabbily. They have cheapened & degraded the date, the event, the memory.

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lpbk2713

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:30 PM
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12. It's been 143 years since the American War Between the States.

(Civil War is one of the biggest oxymorons there is)

... but every few weeks there are people right here on
DU who want to resurrect it. Some things just never die.

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hedgehog

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Thu Sep-11-08 12:46 PM
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13. Hoo Boy! "American War Between the States"? Yep,

"there are people right here on
DU who want to resurrect it. Some things just never die."

:eyes:

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RainDog

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Thu Sep-11-08 01:05 PM
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14. I think the religious right started this b.s. about civil war

and some of us are so sick of their shit that we're ready to say... you want it? let's go asshole.

we are at an impasse with two entirely different beliefs about the direction of this nation. If you don't think that no living wage, no health insurance, no social safety net, attempts to stop birth control, attempts to label liberals as traitors -- if none of that matters to you, then you must be very rich and very sheltered from the every day issues for lots of people.

Liberals didn't start it, but if we don't fight back in one way or another, we're fucked.

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Rabrrrrrr

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Thu Sep-11-08 01:26 PM
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15. Yes, indeed - time to let it fade, and stop obsessing about it.

The obsessing is a sign of not healing; and as long as we're not healing, we'll obsess about it. It's the American way - dwell on it in an emotionally childlike way for the rest of time.

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