Seven Years Later: Are people starting to forget?

[Spleen]

Ok, no one will ever forget the september 11 attacks, but it seems the date itself is being forgotten.

For years, the shopping centre ("mall") I worked in would sound an announcement telling the shoppers that a 1 minute silence was being held. And everyone would obey, and if they didn't, they'd get some nasty looks during and afterwards.

Today, we had no announcement. No one was silent at all, at any point of the day. I spoke to the owner of my store, asked if we were going to have a minute silence. His reply was "for what?". A few seconds later he remembered, but for me it was the first thing I thought of when I woke up.

I spoke to pretty much everyone else I worked with, kind of testing them.. I'd just say "We might do a minute silence today".... Not a single one of them knew why. I was fucking gob-smacked.


Is it just my town that doesn't care? I bet in America EVERYONE paid their silent respects. But it wasn't just a sad day for Americans, it was a sad for the the whole fucking human race.

So did everyone else hold a minute silence in their place of work? Or did anyone else forget?

 

[CunningStunts]

I certainly remember... I live 2 miles from the Pentagon, I'll never forget that day.

 

[meesterperfect]

I haven't forgotten, and never will, I watched the second tower go down clear as day from Highlands New Jersey, right across the Hudson.

 

[calpoon]

I'm alive, they are dead. If I spent my time mourning the dead, there's more than enough for every second of every day. millions of people die every year.

I feel for the people that lost family members, but I didn't know any of those people. Just because politics is supposed to dictate this as a greater tragedy than any other loss of life, honesty, it really has zero effect on me. you may call me a shithead for saying that, but I'm just being honest and I think everyone else is a hypocrite for validating one persons death above another's.

I find the death of individual liberty, the notion that people are supposed to bow down in conformity or be shunned to be much more disturbing. let people mourn in their own way if they feel the need, or not if they choose to.

 

[ZaphodB]

I like the way this guy put it: http://www.zeldman.com/2008/09/11/the-lessons-of-september-11-2002/

But yes, I remember 9/11 vividly.

 

[member979979]

You know, I honestly woke up this morning not realizing until I went on to yahoo.

 

[Friday on my mind]

I like the way this guy put it: http://www.zeldman.com/2008/09/11/the-lessons-of-september-11-2002/

But yes, I remember 9/11 vividly.

I agree with his sentiment on it in general.Living in NJ I will never forget it as NY is so close.But 7 years out it may be time to not dwell on it as much as we do still do.

 

[calpoon]

yeah, I remember 9/11/2001. America turned into nazi germany with flags flying every square foot and wanting to declare war on the world and outing every person with a dissenting view point as a terrorist and a traitor to the nation. It was a pretty scary place to be. I was never really too worried (and I still am not) about Arabs bombing Walmart and Starbucks (the places where the average American congregates). Americans seemed to be content enough to take it upon themselves to subvert freedom and democracy here, no need to wait for the terrorists to do it.

 

[Friday on my mind]

yeah, I remember 9/11/2001. America turned into nazi germany with flags flying every square foot and wanting to declare war on the world and outing every person with a dissenting view point as a terrorist and a traitor to the nation. It was a pretty scary place to be. I was never really too worried (and I still am not) about Arabs bombing Walmart and Starbucks (the places where the average American congregates). Americans seemed to be content enough to take it upon themselves to subvert freedom and democracy here, no need to wait for the terrorists to do it.

Yeah that too.

 

[Violator79]

I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. I'll never forget it and I never will.

 

[Funkwerkz]

9/11 was sad but there is one damn truth. The truth is that the world has changed so dramatically. People changed too. Generations are replaced.

Time kinda heals the pain. I can easily put myself in the shoes of victims' relatives because i lost my dad in a damn terrible stuff. Now, it's been 11 years and i going on my way in full self-confidence with my dad's heritage aka honourable name, my love for him and my memories. I think relatives of victims' should go in this way.

9/11 became a personal cause rather than an international stuff. I watched commemorandum on tv today. It was dramatic and tv's commendator was international relations specialist. I was like "WTF?! Still 9/11 in international relations?" You know this is what?! This is making policies over people's blood and souls.

Since 1984, Turkey has been hit by a scumbag terrorist organisation and we have lost more than 30,000 lives. Rest of the world didn't even give a shit. This doesn't mean that i don't care 9/11. I care every piece of human life, i got sad anytime i hear bad events. I just demand equal approach to any terrorist attack in any country.

 

[CunningStunts]

yeah, I remember 9/11/2001. America turned into nazi germany with flags flying every square foot and wanting to declare war on the world and outing every person with a dissenting view point as a terrorist and a traitor to the nation. It was a pretty scary place to be. I was never really too worried (and I still am not) about Arabs bombing Walmart and Starbucks (the places where the average American congregates). Americans seemed to be content enough to take it upon themselves to subvert freedom and democracy here, no need to wait for the terrorists to do it.

You have the right to think that's the truth, but I disagree.

I always notice that when people want to make a point politically, especially left wing-leaning people, they use the "N" word... Nazi that is. You gotta do better than that. I've seen more personal freedoms taken away by left-leaning state governments in the last 8 years than the Federal government could dream of... so show me some examples how your freedom has been curtailed...

 

[ChefChiTown]

So did everyone else hold a minute silence in their place of work? Or did anyone else forget?

No one will ever forget. I think we're just at the point where we've moved on with our lives and don't feel like re-living the tragedy every chance we get.

Personally, I hate when we "have" to re-live tragic moments from our lifetime that happened years ago; TV specials, half hour news segments, moments of silence, front page newspaper dedications, etc.

If my parents died in a terrible car accident, I wouldn't want the people around me to constantly remind me of what happened.

"Hey, remember when your parents died on this day?"

"Wasn't that the worst day of your life?"

"God, I can't believe it's been 3 years since your parents were killed in a painful head-on car collision...how the times flies!"

"Do you want to sit around and cry together? You know, because your parents are dead?"

We all know it happened. We all know how sad it was. Let's move on and stop trying to "hold on" to how we originally felt when it first happened.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Just because they don't have a moment of silence does not mean anything. We never have moments of silence for anything that happened in either of the world wars now. That is in the past, people have payed their respects. They had to stop sometime, anyway.

 

[Facetious]

Boo Hu :crying:

I got a back ache today and the food bank ran out of my favorite brands of coffee, crackers, monterey Jack, tortillas, fruit punch, fudgesicles, kosher franks, spring water . . . and what's this . . .(?) Store brand Oreos ?:weeping:

I'm also pissed that my neighbor hasn't come over and smoked me a bowl yet !

Damned kunt ! I change the oil in her car for nothing ? !
Oh, shes says that was payment due on that dollop of sour cream that I had borrowed last autumn.

How bout them Jets ? !!

The California . . Anaheim . . . I'll get it right . . The "Los Angeles Angels" won the division Again !!

What's for dinner tonite ? . . . and desert ?

TGIF Tomorrow . . . Baby !!! :nanner:

Collectively, we're a nation full of self centered, over medicated , schitzo - bipolar crybabies. All I see are people in a hurry to go nowhere. Self righteous, well provided, fat . . . happy & often napping . . . arrogant - ignorant people ! Have you seen that one before ? It's like offering to buy the "street guy" a mini pizza as opposed to giving him 3 bucks in cash. . . ."Oh f_ _ _ you asshole ! Take your pizza and shove it ! "

What was the thread title again ?









In all seriousness, in order to really get emotional about this unfortunate, historical event, I believe that you would have had to have been there to see it all go down, so to speak. Watching it on TV didn't do it justice. When I see clips of "the day" on tv, I still think that it's a motion picture in the periphery of my sub conscious state of mind.

Another thing that I remember about that day, and the following days thereafter - Members of the RED Cross had lifted donations from the till to the sum of millions OF $ !!!!

ice water in veins, jerks !

 

[LBP 76]

Will the world ever forget? Not as long as America is the world power because they won't let the world forget it.

 

[calpoon]

I've seen more personal freedoms taken away by left-leaning state governments in the last 8 years than the Federal government could dream of... so show me some examples how your freedom has been curtailed...

I'm not really too sure about the lefties as far as that goes, since I come from a red state, so I can't speak for them. But for the feds, off the top of my head, the patriot act, warrantless wire taps, mandatory ID and racial profiling of suspected illegal immigrants (read: brown people) in the name of securing our borders as part of the terrorist threat rhetoric, Operation backfire, legislation under the homeland security agency to make companies dealing with hazardous waste exempt from environmental impact reports, the general attitude of the media in regards to censorship and bias, just to name a few.

 

[CunningStunts]

I'm not really too sure about the lefties as far as that goes, since I come from a red state, so I can't speak for them. But for the feds, off the top of my head, the patriot act, warrantless wire taps, mandatory ID and racial profiling of suspected illegal immigrants (read: brown people) in the name of securing our borders as part of the terrorist threat rhetoric, Operation backfire, legislation under the homeland security agency to make companies dealing with hazardous waste exempt from environmental impact reports, the general attitude of the media in regards to censorship and bias, just to name a few.

And yet, there are many more illegal immigrants here in the US than before 9/11/01. So, what you are saying is that the Feds have failed in their quest to be Nazis? They aren't efficient or ruthless enough? :rofl:

 

[Spleen]

I'm alive, they are dead. If I spent my time mourning the dead, there's more than enough for every second of every day. millions of people die every year.

No one will ever forget. I think we're just at the point where we've moved on with our lives and don't feel like re-living the tragedy every chance we get.

As I did state in my post, I was just talking about paying your own personal respects for what happened ON THIS DATE, not every day.

I also stated that I'm not talking about the actual attacks itself, because I know no one will ever forget. I'm just talking about remembering it today. I was also trying to find out if peoples works/schools/families ETC held a one minute silence or not, because like I said, I don't know anyone who was envolved in one today.

Will the world ever forget? Not as long as America is the world power because they won't let the world forget it.

I wonder if you edited your post because of what I was gonna pick up on? Humans werent to blame for the Tsunami... Natural disasters are a bit different from death and destruction caused by man.

 

[Doc Scurlock]

Don't worry about it. With Rudy Giuliani around no one will ever forget because every time the man speaks he'll be sure to drop a 9/11 reference.