I saw a strange license plate today.

[TheUniverse]

Underneath the license it said "September 11, 2001." I remember how many people seemed to celebrate September 11. They thought it was a glorious day where that nation got together. Bull Fucking shit. September 11th was a horrible day where thousands of innocent people died. People don't celebrate the Oklahoma city bombing, Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor, or the Holocaust. So why do people celebrate 9/11, pimp it out on bumper stickers and licenses and act like it is something special?

[againes654]

1. I think some people

Gulliani not included, do that in remembrence, not in celebration. I do agree with you though, it was a horrible horrible day that changed this nation, and therfore, the rest of the world forever.

[varkam]

2. I think there's two stories, there.

I do remember in the few months after September 11th when it seemed like all the lines of distinction blurred for a while. It didn't really matter if you were rich or poor, white or black, democrat or republican - there were only Americans. In some respects I think there was a lot of beauty that came out of it because you had total strangers caring about one another, caring about the collective suffering that we had all experienced.

Then, of course, we went back to condition normal.

[LisaM]

6. No, it wasn't beautiful, because Bush took advantage

He made that horrible speech, all the while going ahead with plans to invade Iraq, wreck the Constitution, spy on American citizens, you name it. Everyone thought I was a shrew, screeching about his phony speech, telling everyone I hated him more than I had before, WARNING people, who were all LA LA LA LA, it's so beautiful, the country's coming together, he's our leader, blah blah blah. I felt more marginalized than I usually do.

[varkam]

9. But Bush taking advantage of the situation

doesn't really have anything to do with what I was talking about.

[panader0]

3. Wait until the truth comes out about why the towers fell.

[shadowknows69]

4. Here are my cynical thoughts on that if you're interested

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1793502>

[LSK]

5. maybe it was a Halliburtan employee

:shrug:

[Javaman]

7. Because people are making money off of it. nt

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Because it reminds us that no other nation has ever suffered as we have

That we're blindingly beautiful, and the world hates us for it.

That horrible brown-skinned terrorists dared to stage an attack on the sacred soil of the American Heimat its very own self.

That we're braver and tougher and more macho than anyone else and therefore, while we shit our pants and cower under tables, we have a God-given right to destroy any other country we choose to destroy.

[scorpiogirl]

10. It's not celebration, it's exploitation! n/t

[treestar]

11. IA, and I think it is absolutely sick that the right tries to make a

national holiday of it. "Patriot Day." We should celebrate the 17th of September - Constitution Day. Instead, most Americans have never heard of it.

There is something really psychologically sick about dwelling on a negative to the extent we have.

I recall the flags being at half mast for 30 days. Every 911 that rolls around is an excuse for another orgy of national self pity and most of us weren't affected. The Russians don't celebrate June 22. The Poles don't celebrate Sept. 1. If that's the case, why do we obsess over Sept. 11?

[lonestarnot]

12. MIHOP reminder.