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Monday, September 01, 2003
Yeah. Because nobody ever talks about 9/11 anymore....
How to take the vicarious thrill of tragedy, claim it as your own, and fill up an otherwise empty life:
MB posted a rant yesterday about the media stealing our Day To Remember and trying to hide it in the closet as though it were some dirty little secret. "They" believe "they" have some ordained right to deny us any recognition &/or remembrance of those outrageous attacks on our country, our people, and our souls. They are doing token little gawpy, mewling pieces here and there about individuals whose lives were damaged or destroyed by what they demean as 'incidents', as though this brutal assault were just another mundane 'accident'.
Those were not 'incidents' or 'accidents'; they were the opening salvos of the war in which we are now engaged. In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared 7DEC1941 a Day Of Infamy. We must declare 11SEP2001 a Day To Remember and preserve its importance to us all. This battle is for the very life and soul of not only our country but for the peace, prosperity, and heart of the entire world.
The "media" be damned! We WILL NOT forget how we were attacked. We WILL remember and gather strength and purpose from it. We WILL persevere and prevail.
What a great idea! "declare 11SEP2001 a Day To Remember", because the media, will, you know, probably not even mention it...
(Update): Here's what started this weeks outrage:
Let me get this straight - I have to be subjected to hundreds of hours of programming about Laci friggin' Peterson over the last nine months, on regular news, breaking news, news magazines, even some A&E program - but "nothing special" about 9/11 on its second anniversary? That's just one example. The news people spend completely obnoxious amounts of time on "special" programming for all manner of utter and complete crap, but only TWO YEARS after the worst day in America's history, they're not going to bother devoting primetime air to commemorate that catastrophe?
I don't get it. I don't get it. I. Do. Not. Get. It.
You see 9/11 was the "worst day in America's history". Not that attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged us into war. Not Gettysburg where over 51,000 Americans died. It was 9/11, because, well, it happened just recently during the short lives of people who have known no other tragedies, and everyone knows that what happens now is the biggest or best or most popular or most tragic or....
What we lack in perspective, we make up for in self-obsession and navel gazing and patting ourselves on the back. And god knows we love a good wallow. Especially one that will get the blood pumping for more foreign blood to wash away our own which is exactly what these "commemoration" shows would do...
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