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.
Posted by: B - 09.11.2008 - 7:51am
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.
Posted by: Diz - 09.11.2008 - 3:59pm
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.
Posted by: Pandora - 09.11.2008 - 4:26pm
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.
Posted by: Danalyn - 09.11.2008 - 7:30pm
Posted by: Pandora - 09.11.2008 - 7:38pm
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
Posted by: Breigh - 09.17.2008 - 1:14am
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?
(If you want to read the juicy stuff, register! :D )
Posted by: Pandora - 09.17.2008 - 4:39am