It’s been seven years since the day the whole world turned upside for an entire country.
It was a tragic event. Not only did people lose loved ones, an entire country lost the feeling of being safe at home.
I get it.
However.
Can we let go a little bit?
Anyone?
Can the date 11 September go by without tributes and memorials services and whatnot? Without the entire newscast being dedicated to what happened and what’s happening now?
Please. PLEASE. Lord have mercy.
Flame me if you want, but I’m so ready for people to grieve without the media telling them to do so. That’d be absolutely fabulous.
Ugh.
Maybe I don’t get it. Maybe I just have no patriotism. (Yeah. Sure, I don’t.) Maybe it’s just because I live in the DC area. I imagine New York is the same.
I just – ugh.
I’m tired of it. Tired of all of it. No, I didn’t lose anyone. Is that the problem? I have no sense of loss, so I just don’t care?
Who knows. But – it’s my blog, and I say ….
ENOUGH ALREADY!
(Wait. Didn’t I say this last year…. No, I guess not. I thought I posted about it last year, but no. I looked. (; So, I just must have told someone. Same frustration last year. :/ )
Go on. Flame me. I can take it.
I agree. We don’t need to be reminded of what happened, it’s nothing something we’ll forget, even after 7 years. The media loves a good story though and sadly, this is a “good” one.
Driving to work today, I turned on the (NY) radio after a podcast ended and seeing as I had a couple minutes more of commute time. The station was commenting on how some people want to forget, or to stop acknowledging today. Major NY papers like The Post are running pigface lipstick headlines.
They took a listener call. The woman lost her husband seven years ago. In tears, she was devastated that The New York Times didn’t even have a front page story on 9/11. CNN.com ran an Op-Ed from a woman who lost her mother, and still doesn’t have a memorial to take her 7 year old to.
I don’t need the media to tell me when to grieve, per se, but I agree with the caller who said those who didn’t live through it need to see it, and that this day needs to live on in our memories. Not because horror and pain and loss is a good thing, but because if you don’t remember, you are bound to forget. And forgotten tragedy is one of the key reasons that history repeats itself.
Totally not flaming you, by the way. You know I love you, and I get what you’re saying. I think there are plenty of ways to remember, plenty of stories to tell, and not necessarily the ones that the media chooses to.
I guess I just don’t understand the overwhelming need to drop EVERYTHING and focus on just – this. JUST this. I think I saw *one* news story this morning which was non-related to 9/11. *ONE*. Really? Is nothing else going on in this world today? JUST a day to remember?
I think that’s my problem. I’m not against remembering. I’m not against a memorial. I’m against making it the be all and end all. Like the Earth has stopped revolving, that the entire world has put their lives on hold so we can remember a horrible tragedy.
Can’t there be a happy medium?
“In memoriam of today’s tragic events, we bring you this (or these) stories….”
“And now, in other news, in the world today…”
As opposed to – ALL 9/11, ALL THE TIME!
@Diz – I know you aren’t flaming me. You are offering your point of view – which is what I want. I know my point of view is that of someone relatively unaffected by what happened. So – it’s good for other people to chime in.
Personally, I was tired of it 3 years ago.
I think they should build a monument for those who want to remember, but STOP bombarding us with news through every media outlet every year.
Yes, it was a tragedy. So was my dad’s death. Move on.
Let the people move on and/or remember in their own ways. Stop telling us how we should feel and react…telling me how I *should* feel is a surefire way to annoy the piss outta me and get me to stop caring at all.
AH! Dana, that’s exactly how I feel. I’m tired of hearing about “The tragic deaths”. I really am. I won’t forgot. Hard to forget something like that as a first year teacher, three weeks in, trying to keep a classroom of kids from panicking because some of their parents work in the Pentagon. So – yeah. I’m not going to forget. However, all this – ‘remembering 9/11’ – makes me want to forget. Because it’s all people will talk about.
I came here from Lucy’s Dilemma and when I started reading this post I thought “UGH!!” and was about to hit the ‘back’ button when I saw you saying about letting it go.
My first instinct was “Another American going on and on about 9/11” which made me want to get the hell out of here. I’m so glad I continued reading on a bit.
I’m not American, I don’t live in the US. I get that it was a major tragedy but I guess it doesn’t hit close enough to home for me. I’m tired of hearing about it. Sick to death – gonna offend some people soon – kind of tired.
Thanks for having the guts to say it out loud!
Gonna go read some more of your entries now, you have me curious! Bummer about all the private ones though… I wanna read the juicy stuff! haha
@Breigh – Welcome! 😀 I’m glad you kept reading too! 😀
I understand that people were deeply affected and lost loved ones. I do. And yet – they aren’t the only ones to lose someone to a tragic death. Is losing someone in 9/11 any more tragic than someone who lost a loved one to a drunk driver? I just think it’s time to move on. Publicly. Memorials and whatnot are fabulous. Let’s just not have the 9/11 channel on all the news stations once a year, mmmkay?
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