9/11 is becoming history. Each year the hooplah will become more muted.

[cali]

Maybe it's that bushco is not longer in the white house. Maybe it's just the passage of time, but for the first year since it happened that I feel like it's become history. And no, I'm not saying it should be forgotten.

[virgogal]

1. That's the way it is----time passes and we move on.

[John1956PA]

2. It was once said that there is a dusty line which separates current events from history. (n/t)

[hedgehog]

3. If we never forget, we end up with situations like the dispute between

Shi'ite and Sunni, or Catholic and Protestant in Belfast.

[cali]

5. not necessarily. Pearl Harbor for instance. It's a balancing act

but it happens.

[givemebackmycountry]

4. Yeah, it'll be like it never happened...

EXCEPT FOR THAT GIANT FREAKING HOLE IN THE GROUND WHERE THE WTC USED TO BE.

Maybe we can forget New Orleans too?

There are reasons these things are not discussed.
Bad for business.

If we actually had a free press, imagine what we might discover.

[cali]

6. hey,genius, what part of I'm not saying it should be forgotten is so difficult for

your brain to recognize. really, try harder, dear.

[givemebackmycountry]

7. Cali, I'm agreeing with you...

I know that you are not saying it should not be forgotten.
Sadly, it seems it already has.
Samt thing with 'Nawlins.

Your right about my brain though.

[obliviously]

9. Thats exactly what you are saying

If we don't make a conscious effort to remember it will be forgotten in history. Your OP is a contradiction GENIUS!

[Mind_your_head]

8. If we don't SERIOUSLY address/look at what happened on 9/11/2001

we, as a NATION, will sorely regret it.

Just like not properly addressing Iran-Contra has come back to haunt us....and allow for further abuse and "STUFF" ;-) ;-) :-) just 'falls under the table'......

....that 'stuff that fell under the table' ;-) :-) :-) ALWAYS hurts the 'common man'.

That stuff that falls under the table aren't negligable crumbs....it's BIG RED HUNKS OF MEAT. Ignore it to your own peril.

[Mind_your_head]

10. I think people/kids will remember 9/11/2001 for a LONG TIME....

The social ramifications are even LARGER than "where were you when you heard that JFK was shot".....and THAT was HUGE.

I think a lot of 'kids' will come to realize.......

--------

Societal manipulation/"management".... :eyes:

[pipi_k]

11. Even good stuff gets muted after a while...

We're just not equipped to deal with all of it at the same level for very long, even the good.

I think that once the ten year anniversary has come and gone, we'll probably be able to collectively let it go. Not that the families of the victims ever will, but as a country, yes. We'll remember but the pain and horror won't be as sharp. We'll have grieved and then moved on and relegated 9/11 to the pages of History.

[Mind_your_head]

12. Will history remember that because of 9/11......

the TSA was formed and made 'granny' throw away her cuticle scissors at the 'security check point' (which was never there before)....and that your grandpa with Parkinson's disease had to take off his shoes and be "wanded" before entering a plane.....and that your teenage daughter has to have her underwire bra 'wanded'.

Prior to 9/11/2001, we treated each other with MUCH MORE RESPECT and didn't look at each other as 'possible terrorists'/'evil - do-ers'

September 11, 2001 was a very evil and BOLD (successful to some extent) attempt to make us all distrust/hate each other.

In truth, we all need each other to get along. That only happens with love & trust. And most all humans wish/hope for the same ("golden rule" and all....)

[Ilsa]

13. I know people who are upset that Obama suggests we turn 9/11 into

a day of service in honor of the sacrifice so many made that day. I explained that as we all get older, fewer people will have known the victims of that day, and fewer are likely to preserve the day for remembrance unless something else is attached to it.

GOPers are like Rudy Guiliani with wanting to keep 9/11 prominent in every political discussions.

[Mind_your_head]

14. Eight years is not that long ago, for one thing

I don't know how I can be "of service" to people who died on Sept. 11th.....maybe plant flowers at the "Fresh Kills" landfill on Staten Island????? :shrug: :sarcasm:

[Liberal In Texas]

15. Yeah. It's like when Kennedy got assinated. Then the other Kennedy. His brother.

Time passes. And we become numb and used to the new reality.

We were outraged at the time, but if you don't tuck the outrage and hurt someplace, you just might become insane.

Yeah, isn't it amazing it's been this long.

I'll never forget the day my father died. I'll never forget when President Kennedy was assassinated. Or Bobby. Or Martin. Or 911.

It leaves scars on your soul. It just does.

We continue on, or we lose or grasp on what might be reality.

[Mind_your_head]

16. Maybe THAT's where we went wrong? Maybe we shouldn't have 'continued on'

Maybe we should have held these GANGSTERS accountable?!?!?!?

What a concept! :headbang:

[Mind_your_head]

17. Maybe I should belch and scratch my bald head and my fat male ass;;;;;and the b*tches will LOVE me!

:eyes:

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[Mind_your_head]

19. How old are you , son? (daughter?)

:rofl:

[bridgit]

20. if i doo'd it i mite dit'a whip'n...i doo'd it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xNdkO4VtQ4

[Mind_your_head]

21. Yep. n/t