After just having a conference call interrupted so that my business colleagues could “watch President Bush lead the nation in a moment of silence”, I think it’s time to get some perspective on the elaborate national day of mourning that 9/11 has become.
After all, this wallowing in grief-stricken jingoism – complete with the affected reading of all 3000+ names of “fallen heroes” – now seems little more than a national political spectacle.
Instead, let us each remember that day in our own way, without turning our sympathy for those who lost loved ones into an annual day of hero worship.
Meanwhile, can anyone recall how many annual moments of silence, Soviet-style tributes, and funereal processions were performed in remembrance of Pearl Harbor or the Oklahoma City bombing?
Enough already…!
9/11 remembered
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