September 11, 2012
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The Daily News
1 Today is 9/11.
2 Each year I do a mini-unit on that fateful day in 2001.
3 This morning I was awakened by some banal teevee show blaring at me with some odd report about 9/11 and Facebook.
4 Unfortunately I didn't catch the entire thing, just some off-the-cuff report that had utterly no sense of the tragedy, nor of history.
5 This was at around 3 a.m.
6 It woke me up, because I am teaching about 9/11 right now.
7 I decided to go to my laptop to knock off the DN. I'm never quite sure as to when to do this anymore, because I try to get to sleep early, not only for health reasons, but so that I will be energized each day for school.
8 Anyway, I went online and saw this website called The Theologian's Cafe. What made me meander over there was this comment:
" I was talking to a person today and she said that she was sick of the 9/11 coverage. She said it happens every year starting a few days before."9
10 Is it just me?
11 I rarely click on those sorts of things but I wanted to get a pulse on that one.
12 I teach a mini-unit on 9/11 every year because I feel it is important. It is a day that changed everything in America. It began a lot of the nonsense that we now see on a daily basis.
13 It wiped out the Constitution.
14 We may never know what happened, but America in 2012 has little resemblance to the America of eleven year's ago.
15 We are now a country living in fear, and controlled by fear.
16 Just the fact that this is even a discussion this close to the tragedy is just sad.
17 And a little scary.
18 Burying history is never a good idea. Not asking questions is never a good idea.
19 Forgetting a tragedy of that magnitude is unutterably idiotic.
20 I'm going to share this idiocy with you this morning.
21 I don't blame the blogger. I'm just rolling my head at the thread.
22 So this is from a blog called The Theologian's Cafe.
24 Here go:
YES BECAUSE IT WASN'T REAL IT WAS ALL A CONSPIRACY BY OUR GOVERNMENT
I don't understand being annoyed by something like that. But that's just me.
Maybe she was a family member or friend of someone who died that day.
She must also be sick of Memorial Day, and Labor Day. Bet your ass if they were giving her time off for it she wouldn't be bitching.
No, because it changed the world. Regardless of public opinion.
No way. Same goes with the Holocaust, Veteran's Day, etc - we don't just stop tributing them.
about what?
I didn't like 9/11.
We still remember Pearl Harbor....and that was 71 years ago this coming December 7th.
No.
though i can put myself in her shoes i wonder what she posts blogs about. there is really nothing posted on Xanga that's new under the sun except for fiction. does anyone really think relationship issues, discussions about body part sizes, fashion or who's hot today and who's not today or pictures of landscapes however beautiful are anything new?
I think people get sick of it because people still cover it in the "this was sad, you must be sad or you are a bad person" fashion. It is understandable that people find it frustrating.
Sorry, but we can't afford to go back to the mindset we had on 9/10.
No. If she doesn't like it, she doesn't have to read or watch it.
Another few more years to make it 20 years. Something to do with a generation i think..It fades somewhat naturally with time..
don't watch the coverage then
I'll never get sick of my favorite kpop vids. watch things that don't make her sick but make her in the party mood.
It will NEVER be appropriate to stop covering the 9/11/01 attacks, the attacks which preceded them, and the attempts which have occurred since. These people truly want to destroy America, and make this an Islamic World.
Once we forget history, we are doomed to repeat it and never learn from it. I'd have told her off. lol
I don't think we can ever stop talking about it but it would be great if the pack of lies that go along with it stops being told. That said people need to remember & celebrate all the ones that needlessly lost their lives or had their world forever changed on that day. Eleven years later it still breaks my heart.
No. 9/11 was kind of a big deal...If she doesn't like it, she doesn't have to watch it/read it.
@randomneuralfirings - What mindset was that? Living free living without in fear? If so, please bring me back to those days. Now all we have are the unamerican DHS and TSA terrorizing regular law abiding citizens. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the terrorists won. You're living in fear and we're wasting billions of dollars in the name of protecting ourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU
What @ShimmerBodyCream - said.
Yes, it's like reopening the wound that it left in the hearts of thousands affected by it. We shouldn't forget the heroes we lost that day though. We should just make it a holiday where everyone gets to have a day off. It'll make those who complain about it happy
I saw something on Facebook where someone posted a pic of the two towers and said sobering thought:11 years ago over 3000 innocent people said goodnight to their loved ones for the last time.
Unfortunately we as humans need to be reminded of things. We forget and eventually forgetfulness becomes I don't care anymore.Selfishness will only rest for a little while then it wants center stage again
24 So there you have it.
25 Somehow, a bunch of bullets invaded today's DN.
26 I can't shake them.
27 Anyway, weird things are happening.
28 And it is now around 4:30 a.m.
29 Okay, miraculously, I got rid of them. They were bulleting each DN item. I'm fairly certain that my fonts are going to change and get smaller. Fear not. It's not a government conspiracy to silence me.
30 It was sort of funny, that one guy who used the same Goofy with the fishing pole that I have grown fond of over the years. The rest of those people need to clean up their English skills. Brutal.
31 That being said, I'm a bit struck dumb by the entire concept of being "sick of 9/11 coverage." Is that becoming the trend? If so, it's a tad dangerous.
32 This is why I teach it.
33 It changed America.
34 It changed our country.
35 It blew up the Bill of Rights.
36 And regardless of politics, the people who lost loved ones deserve respect.
37 It's sad that a generation not affected could be so callous as to be sick of the coverage.
38 Too bad sweetie.
39 It should be clear to anybody that we must never forget.
40 Not because I am suddenly a raving patriot.
41 I just happened to have lived through it. My family lived through it.
42 New York lived through it.
43 And America lived through it.
44 And the rest of the world watched.
45 Give it a thought. Thinking is still legal. I'm guessing that sentiment wasn't an original thought.
46 But it is a scary thought if that's what is out there.
47 I won't watch all of it. But I will think about what happened to everybody that day.
48 I have to.
49 And I will continue to teach about it.
50 That I promise.
51 Peace.
~H~
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