How do you deel now that its been two years?

[Slash Tompson]

I know there's already a related thread, but its not the same. I plan to post on it as soon as I finish reading all the prior posts. But after two years since 9/11, how do you feel about the subject? Me personally, I'm just so angry. So angry. If I could JUST get my hands on one of those guys for just FIVE minutes... man.... I mean its a reality check. A major realtiy check. These bunch of schmucks got together and came up with this. But thats not what makes me angry. You know what makes me angry? That had this been someone with more muscle, more organization, more PEOPLE... we, the people, would have been entirely crippled. Say China had done this, with actual weapons, and not just New York and DC, but EVERYWHERE. What would be next. That's what troubles me. Not only do we know that we're vulnerable in a very intimate way... but so does everyone else... and that just makes me sooooo angry...

So what about you?

[RockItShipper]

Make their work for nothing. We can't replace the lives lost, but we can go and restore the symbols they were so bent on destroying. Bin Laden does not deserve to have his handiwork as part of the NYC skyline.

[TimTwoFace]

Not to make light of the situation, but I, myself, moved on a long time ago. Had I been an American citizen, a New Yorker, or a relative/friend of a victim, I'd of course have a different outlook. It's not that I can't understand why people are still so affected by these events - I can wholeheartedly, and I'd never suggest they should feel otherwise. It's just that, for me, I've moved on - but I'll never forget.

-Tim

[supermonkey]

This 9/11 has turned into govt marketing. No one gives a dam about the Oklahoma bombing. How surprising. We are 'celebrating' this day with a holiday while events like D-Day don't get a holiday. How surprising. The flavor of the day has little effect on me personally. I could care less if that is considered unpatriotic, this labelling BS started by Bush Jr is disgusting.

[TimTwoFace]

I don't think the day needs to be designated to be a holiday (nor should it - "Patriot Day" is about the stupidest idea I've heard in a while) in order to be remembered. Now, as the years go by, the throngs of people remembering publically in ceremonies and the extended news reports will slowly dwindle, but the memories of that day two years ago will be in everyone's concsiousness. And that's how it should be.

To be fair, D-Day is still remembered every year. I don't watch much American news, but in Canada it's still remembered every June 6th, as one of the biggest days in WW2, and one of the most important days in our country's building. I wouldn't say that people have forgotten about that one. Ditto for Pearl Harbour.

I will agree about the horrible Oklahoma City bombing, though. I couldn't tell you what day it was off the top of my head. I'm pretty sure it was in April, 1994, but the exact day escapes me. I know a big memorial has been erected in OK City, but you never hear about it on the news, do you? Nearly a decade has passed, and people do eventually move on, I suppose.

Or I can just be cynical and suggest that the news doesn't cover this anniversary because it was an American that took American lives, not a foreigner. I can't really back that up with anything, but it's very possible.

So yeah, I don't think these days of rememberance should be up in our face each year, trying to MAKE us remember. People know. They don't need their TVs or radios or internet to be reminded, and they'll just do it in their own way.

-Tim

[Joe Mama]

I think New York should make a, statue or monument, or something instead of a holiday. A monument will remind people of the how weak we were (and probably still are) all the time instead of just a celebration, and no work/shcool once a year.

[TimTwoFace]

I still think the towers (or something similar to them) should be rebuild on that site, and have a big portion of the site dedicated as a memorial. That would be the most fitting - defiant, but always remembering. Who knows when such a process will even begin, though.

-Tim

[Slash Tompson]

This 9/11 has turned into govt marketing. No one gives a dam about the Oklahoma bombing. How surprising. We are 'celebrating' this day with a holiday while events like D-Day don't get a holiday. How surprising. The flavor of the day has little effect on me personally. I could care less if that is considered unpatriotic, this labelling BS started by Bush Jr is disgusting.
No, man it ain't a holiday. And people do sit to remember Pearl Harbour. I don't think is about giving publicity to the government. te government has other things they would like to put in th efront pages to give themselves credit for. The Oklahoma bombing is a very different scenario. For one not as many people died, and for anotherit didn't change the way we looked at national security.

[Eddy]

I hope this doesn't make me a bastard or anything but... I kind of moved on...

Yes, what happened two years ago was awful indeed. A tragic day for us all. However, we need to learn to put the past behind us. 9/11 wasn't the first horrible event to happen in America and it sadly probably won't be the last.

If I think about 9/11 too much I'll just get depressed again.

May we never forget. Yes, we won't forget for a long time.

Always remember, but do not speak.

In fact, it's best I stop right here. I'm starting to feel a little depressed just typing this...

[a.k.a. Skarr~~]

I'm with Tim. 9/11/01 was sad, 9/11/02 was sad, and 9/11/03 was sad, as will all other 9/11's from here on. But it's not like it happened yesterday. We've moved on, and, not to scare anyone, but worse things will happen.

Still, September 11th will always be a day to remember... in a POSITIVE WAY! Why? Sure, a national monument was destroyed, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people that died, but it brought our country closer together. Still, the death part is sad.

[Delthayre]

I shall merely say what I have long been saying. The French had a saying during the period when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were lost to them: "Always think of it. Never speak of it."