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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Ophelia
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We were discussing the same thing at work yesterday. I brought up the point that Pearl Harbor Day is also not a national holiday. I think that was also a very tragic day.
exactly.
the thing about having it be a regular work day is going to the city...feeling it...I got out of the train station, turned to my left, and saw Ground Zero. I walked towards my office, and walked past tons of Police Officers and firemen, and the bells they were tolling to ring off the different times.
I walked passed mourners on their way to the ceremony and to the pit.
I saw it in a way I couldn't possibly see it at home, in Brooklyn...having a BBQ or whatever else we now do on Memorial Day.
since the main purpose of the attack was to cripple our financial heart, I don't think shutting it down that day is the way to go.
stocks need to be traded, deals brokered...the world needs to see our heart BEAT on this day, more than any other...IMO.
Perfectly stated...I think actually seeing it and feeling (reliving that day) and realizing how much more stronger and more aware of our vulnerability it has made us, is the best way (for me) to honor and reflect on that day when so many lost their lives.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
I think the problem with making it a "holiday" and getting the day off is that in most parts of the country (not NY or DC) people will just use it as a day for bbqs and to go shopping etc. It will not be used as a day of rememberance.
This did not affect other parts of the nation in the same way it affected NY so while it may no be true for NY it will be considered "just another day off" in other parts of the nation. I prefer it the way that it is now that to think in a few years people will be saying "oh, what are you doing for 9/11 - oh we are going to a BBQ".
We may all remember but the next generation will not...such is life...
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
Posted by bedda26
I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
Im sure they said the same thing about Pearl Harbor day....and do any of us REALLY feel the pain that our grandparents felt that day? I dont think so....
Yes, I do...until those children that lost parents can forget them, it will forever be a dark moment for them. Until those that walked away covered in soot and dust, can forget; it will be remembered.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts. You have all made me think about it in a different way.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
Posted by bedda26
I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
Im sure they said the same thing about Pearl Harbor day....and do any of us REALLY feel the pain that our grandparents felt that day? I dont think so....
and unfortunatly, 9/11 will be the same way 50 years from now....
Do you think that if we have the day off from work, the pain will transcend generations better? Like, only if people have off on that day, will they tell stories to future generations?
I agree that the personal pain disperses through generations, becaus epeople didn't actually experience it. Hell, some people in different parts of the country feel less pain about this than us.
Giving everyone a day off isn't going to change that.
ETA- every year, my parents reflect deeply on the way they felt when Kennedy was assasinated. As if not a day has passed. That shook the nation. And I have nowhere near as deep a connection to that day. It's just the way things are. you can't have a powerful emotional connection to something you didn't experience.
I think Ophelia is right about needing to function on this day.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Ophelia
since the main purpose of the attack was to cripple our financial heart, I don't think shutting it down that day is the way to go.
stocks need to be traded, deals brokered...the world needs to see our heart BEAT on this day, more than any other...IMO.
ITA.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
All great points.
As for me - this will be the last time I am working on September 11th. I only came in today because I am in a mandatory training class.
I am going to try to make this day a personal day of reflection for myself and attend mass and spend the day in mourning.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by BabyAvocado
Posted by Ophelia
since the main purpose of the attack was to cripple our financial heart, I don't think shutting it down that day is the way to go.
stocks need to be traded, deals brokered...the world needs to see our heart BEAT on this day, more than any other...IMO.
ITA.
I so agree. Hell, if I recall, I think Grasso wanted to remain open that day!
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
Posted by bedda26
I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
Im sure they said the same thing about Pearl Harbor day....and do any of us REALLY feel the pain that our grandparents felt that day? I dont think so....
and unfortunatly, 9/11 will be the same way 50 years from now....
Askthe families of the 9/11 victims if they will feel the pain 50 years from now. I'm sure they will.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by bedda26
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I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
Im sure they said the same thing about Pearl Harbor day....and do any of us REALLY feel the pain that our grandparents felt that day? I dont think so....
and unfortunatly, 9/11 will be the same way 50 years from now....
Askthe families of the 9/11 victims if they will feel the pain 50 years from now. I'm sure they will.
And Im sure the people who lost love ones on in the wars, we celebrate veterans day feel it but im sure their great great great great grandkids will view it as a day off from school.
I still don't understand why anyone would want to celebrate and have a bbq today anyway.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
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I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
Im sure they said the same thing about Pearl Harbor day....and do any of us REALLY feel the pain that our grandparents felt that day? I dont think so....
and unfortunatly, 9/11 will be the same way 50 years from now....
Askthe families of the 9/11 victims if they will feel the pain 50 years from now. I'm sure they will.
and ask the families of those that were lost in Pearl Harbor if they feel the pain today.....families will ALWAYS feel the pain of losing a loved one BUT most people in this country did not lose someone on 9/11....
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
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I don't think that is necessary; we stop, we reflect, we remember. We don't need to sit home...we need to be at work getting on with life, but all the while, never forgetting. This is the darkest day in our history....I don't think we should do anything differently....
ITA...
I am where I was on 9/11/01 - at my office, 2 blocks away from Ground Zero.
I've come in here to work every year since (except the year it was on a Saturday) for at least part of the day.
The first year, my mom made me go to work. She told me it was important to share this day with the people I was with on 9/11/01.
I did the same thing--hung out with the ladies I was with that tragic day
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
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I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
Im sure they said the same thing about Pearl Harbor day....and do any of us REALLY feel the pain that our grandparents felt that day? I dont think so....
and unfortunatly, 9/11 will be the same way 50 years from now....
Askthe families of the 9/11 victims if they will feel the pain 50 years from now. I'm sure they will.
and ask the families of those that were lost in Pearl Harbor if they feel the pain today.....families will ALWAYS feel the pain of losing a loved one BUT most people in this country did not lose someone on 9/11....
My husband lost his cousin. I'm sure we won't forget. But if we hadn't lost him I would still feel some pain for the loss that the victims families feel.
9/11 will always be remembered as the most horrible day our nation has ever had. Almost 3,000 people died 6 years ago, do I have to be related to them to feel the pain of a loss, no?...I do feel some pain for all the families today in addition to my DH's....
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by bedda26
My husband lost his cousin. I'm sure we won't forget. But if we hadn't lost him I would still feel some pain for the loss that the victims families feel.
9/11 will always be remembered as the most horrible day our nation has ever had. Almost 3,000 people died 6 years ago, do I have to be related to them to feel the pain of a loss, no?...I do feel some pain for all the families today in addition to my DH's....
yes...you are family....Im not saying that you wont forget...but do you honestly think that someone from Kansas...that didnt loose someone in 9/11 will remember this day as someone that worked/lived or lost someone in NY that day???
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
Posted by bedda26
My husband lost his cousin. I'm sure we won't forget. But if we hadn't lost him I would still feel some pain for the loss that the victims families feel.
9/11 will always be remembered as the most horrible day our nation has ever had. Almost 3,000 people died 6 years ago, do I have to be related to them to feel the pain of a loss, no?...I do feel some pain for all the families today in addition to my DH's....
yes...you are family....Im not saying that you wont forget...but do you honestly think that someone from Kansas...that didnt loose someone in 9/11 will remember this day as someone that worked/lived or lost someone in NY that day???
Everyone remembers D-Day still- and that only happened in Pearl Harbor. There will still be news coverage every 9/11. No real American, no matter where you live, will forget.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
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My husband lost his cousin. I'm sure we won't forget. But if we hadn't lost him I would still feel some pain for the loss that the victims families feel.
9/11 will always be remembered as the most horrible day our nation has ever had. Almost 3,000 people died 6 years ago, do I have to be related to them to feel the pain of a loss, no?...I do feel some pain for all the families today in addition to my DH's....
yes...you are family....Im not saying that you wont forget...but do you honestly think that someone from Kansas...that didnt loose someone in 9/11 will remember this day as someone that worked/lived or lost someone in NY that day???
I completely agree with Lisa. I was there that day, I'll never forget fearing for my life or walking out of the city covered in dust. My dad still remembers the exact minute I called him to ask what floor his girlfriend worked on in the north tower...he remembers the fear in my face that evening when a plane flew past my apartment building, and I'm sure he always will... but my cousins who live in California... they don't feel it the way I do. They feel it more than their classmates do, because my uncle (their father) was in tears because he didn't know whether I was alive or dead, because he's from NY, but they don't 'get it' the way WE get it. If it was a 'holiday' they'd get that they have a day off from school. I'll be 108 years old and I'll remember my experience and the people I knew that died that day. Making it a day off from work won't change that - and it won't improve upon it either IMO.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
Posted by bedda26
My husband lost his cousin. I'm sure we won't forget. But if we hadn't lost him I would still feel some pain for the loss that the victims families feel.
9/11 will always be remembered as the most horrible day our nation has ever had. Almost 3,000 people died 6 years ago, do I have to be related to them to feel the pain of a loss, no?...I do feel some pain for all the families today in addition to my DH's....
yes...you are family....Im not saying that you wont forget...but do you honestly think that someone from Kansas...that didnt loose someone in 9/11 will remember this day as someone that worked/lived or lost someone in NY that day???
You're definitely right- someone not effected will not have as emotional a reflection today. But is your arguement that they would if they had off from work?
Because that I disagree with.
I couldn't even tell you what day the tsunami was, but I am 10000% sure that day is a big day of mourning in India and surrounding areas.
And I do think of it often, with painful reflection and sympathy.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
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do you mean a holiday?
I certainly hope it will never be "another day off" because it will lose its meaning and just become a day off....like Veterans day has become...
Yes but to call it a Holiday just seems wrong. I just find it so hard to concentrate and all I can think about is what happened. I feel it should be a day off for people to reflect and mourn.
but people will do that anyway....we dont need a day off to do that....and then in 10 years...people wont remember why we have the day off....
I don't agree. I think people will always remember.
I also disagree. I don't think people can forget what happened on 9/11. It's impossible to forget such a horrible and tragic day. Even 10, 20 or 30 years from now. People will remember.
I agree however that it shouldn't be a holiday where you get the day "off" to reflect and mourn. It will just turn into another holiday where you BBQ and stuff. Just like Memorial Day. It should just stay as it is...We take our moment to reflect and remember those we have lost today.
I think what Lisa was trying to say is that in a few years and with a generation that didn't LIVE it, it won't be 10 or even 20 years, but yes, sadly enough, those who aren't able to remember it will not feel the same way as we do. If it was made a National Holiday where people were off from work, it would get looked upon as just another day off, and that's not what close to 3K people died for.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by curliegirl
I think what Lisa was trying to say is that in a few years and with a generation that didn't LIVE it, it won't be 10 or even 20 years, but yes, sadly enough, those who aren't able to remember it will not feel the same way as we do. If it was made a National Holiday where people were off from work, it would get looked upon as just another day off, and that's not what close to 3K people died for.
Thanks!
I said that a few posts ago but I guess it was lost....
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
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It's sad, I have 3 calendars hanging up in my office. Only 1 of them mentions that today is Patriot Day.
It's only been 6 years and yet many of the red, white, and blue that we saw in the weeks following 9/11/01 has disappeared. WHY???
Unfortunately, people who did not live through that day will not recognize September 11 the way we do and eventually it will become "just another day". Look at what's happened in just 6 years, and you think in 100 years people will still feel the same way that we do today.
I'm afraid not. 
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Ophelia
the thing about having it be a regular work day is going to the city...feeling it...
I definitely agree about feeling it more, going to work. When 9/11 feel on a weekend, it was easier to not think think about it as much.
Now, as I hear sirens all day long, I keep remembering what I was doing at that point in the day, 6 years ago.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by imthekevinofcindyandkevin
There were people from all over the world in the towers that day, not just New Yorkers and I do think that people from around the world will always remember what happened.
They WILL remember, but not they way New Yorkers do, and even New Yorkers will soon not be a direct ancestor of the feelings we have now. My child will be totally unaffected by it, because he/she has no memory, but I WILL make sure they know their aunt was an amazing person and what happened and how important it is to us.
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Re: Why isn't today a National Day?
Posted by Lisa
Posted by bedda26
My husband lost his cousin. I'm sure we won't forget. But if we hadn't lost him I would still feel some pain for the loss that the victims families feel.
9/11 will always be remembered as the most horrible day our nation has ever had. Almost 3,000 people died 6 years ago, do I have to be related to them to feel the pain of a loss, no?...I do feel some pain for all the families today in addition to my DH's....
yes...you are family....Im not saying that you wont forget...but do you honestly think that someone from Kansas...that didnt loose someone in 9/11 will remember this day as someone that worked/lived or lost someone in NY that day???
I'm from NY and still remember the destruction and the devastion caused by Hurricane Katrina. I'm from NY and still remember the devastations of the Tsunami...
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