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Look, I'm not saying put a lid on it for every single person out there. I'm just saying, let's stop making this a matter of media and political agenda fodder. The fact that the media doesn't say it's very very sorry every time this day passes doesn't keep someone from grieving.

The majority of the media-run tributes and memorials are done quite well and in good taste, and in an honest context, so I don't see any problem with them airing those sorts of programs. And the last time I heard 9/11 used for political gain was Bush's '04 campaign and Rudy Giuliani's failed bid at nomination.

I hear it a lot, not necessarily on the day, but at other times as well. And I suppose at this point, it is a personal opinion whether you think it should be aired. Not much to debate there.

The wierd thing about this, at least to me, was that when i woke up i wasn't looking forward too much, and i remembered it was september the eleventh.
I went to school thinking that we would do the normal "take a moment of silence"....not a peep. From ANYONE. i didn't even metion it, but nobody else did. The next day i was thinking "holy crap, did everyone just like, forget about it or something". I guess there was a evening news tribute, but other than that, no school silence, nothing mentioned by any of my family or friends. It may be that we are busy, but it does make me a little sad that we cant take a minute or two out of our days, i mean hell, it didn't happen all that long ago, and were still in the turmoil that that was a major part of. It seemed like it was a icon for everything happening over the last few years, but it feels like everyone has forgotten it a little.

Also those people that make the coins with the twin towers on them piss me off, it just seems to me that their trying to make a profit off of a national tragedy.

Thank you for clarifying your point. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you were trying to say. :)

I'm not saying everyone should just "get over it," but I think it's a bit much that people are still publishing books and making movies out of it. War movies and such, sure, but one day? I mean, if we're going to keep on about it, I don't mind, just make it into a freaking national holiday already. :wink:

As an afterthought, I was minorly touched by that day, though not through loss of a loved one. Try being obviously part Iranian in a town full of typical, stereotype rednecks, after that happened. Yeah... Not fun...

I was in Charleston, SC. Goose Creek, actually, at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Center. In class, when the first plane hit. Class didn't last long that day. Less than four hours after the first plane hit, I was behind a .50 machine gun, at the front gate to the base. Terrified.

Unlike so many who've been in the military over the past few years, I didn't join out of any desire for vengeance, or as some memorial to a fallen friend. But like most of those who joined after me, that event touched every single day of my military service.

Now if we could just let the backlash die, and get on with our lives. We'll surely be experiencing the aftereffects for decades, but that doesn't mean we need to make a spectacle of our grief. Give the dead some dignity, and let them pass, U.S. media.