So I know I'm a little late bringing this up, but September 11th just passed and I felt like it was forgotten. To be perfectly honest, I forgot about it until I remembered the date. I felt really stupid and unpatriotic. My sister is in 6th grade, and was really young when it happened but she said her teacher didn't even bring it up. No moment of silence or anything. Thats really hard for me to take in. Are people just ignoring it now? It doesn't matter if you know someone who was personally affected by September 11th, it touched EVERYONE! I didn't even know what the World Trade Center was when it happened, but I knew how horrible the whole day was, I knew it wasn't good.
I guess I just wanted to know if it's going to end up being some taboo thing we won't be able to talk about. If it does, then I apologize in advance because I for sure will be talking about it. Even if we only mention it once a year, it doesn't matter, as long as it is forever in our minds.
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I agree and think that we should not forget about September 11th. 9/11 was just as big, sorrrowful and life changing as Pearl Harbor. However that event is still remembered every December 7th on the radio and tv stations like the history channel and CNN. I can understand why a teacher wouldn't bring it up in a 6th grade class, especially when most of the students may not remember much of it. And it is also hard to bring up a day like that and not bring up old emotions. However, I feel that it is a shame to not atleast mention it. September 11th has changed so much in everyone's lives. Some maybe more than others but it has inevitably affected all of us. I beleive it should be remembered every year and that we should take time every year to reflect on that day and remember those men and women who gave their lives to help rescue and protect those victims of that september day.
I don't think that the country is so much forgetting September 11th as it is moving on. Tragedies of this magnitude are not easily forgotten, and I guarantee that anyone old enough to have experienced that day, wherever they were in the country, will never let it slip from memory. My mother can describe in detail where she was the day President Kennedy was shot. Pearl Harbor is one my Dad often speaks about each year. I can tell you that I was tuning a portable satellite dish I was experimenting with in a technology class in my High School parking lot when I picked up the local news channel and saw the footage of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center.
I didn't hear anyone mention that it was September 11th either, however, I did notice all the flags on people's front porches here in Pleasant Grove. I saw almost as many this Thursday as I did for the Fourth of July. I don't think anyone's forgotten 9/11, I think maybe they're finally moving forward from it.
I'm afraid I fall into the same boat that ya'll were riding on! It didn't even click in my mind why all the flags were half mast.
To justify my forgetfulness I'm going to agree with Johny. We're moving on.
Yeah, I'm with Brady on this one.
I really had no idea why there was a flag in my yard, and everyone elses at that.
I meant, after awhile I figured it out, but it really wasn't even in the front of my mind.
I don't think that makes sense, but that's okay I guess.
I don't know, I think it's good that we're moving forward. Not so much forgetting that horrible day, but getting past it. We've learned from it. Priorities have changed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful for all the men and woman who risked their lives to protect others that day, and I'm very sorry to those families who may have lost someone in the tragedy.
September 11th will always be remembered. It has left a footprint in the American Society.
I think I just contradicted myself.
I don't really know how I feel about this.
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