How Soon We Forget… September 11th 7 Years Later…
I’m not sure if I saw any news specials last night about the 7th Anniversary of one of the most horrific attacks on American soil in recent history. I’m not sure that I saw all the media blitz that covered the airwaves on 09/11/01 and in 02, 03, and I think even in 04 while the media was still interested. ’05 showed a sharp decline in coverage, ’06 less, don’t even remember ’07, and here we are. Today. 09/11/08. Where’s the coverage? Where’s the interest? Where’s America?
In the months after the attacks on that dreadful day people all over the United States Americans stuck flags on their car antennas, bumper stickers, shirts, houses, jackets, everything. You could not look anywhere and NOT see an American flag. Notice I didn’t say “Americans stuck flags…” I’d be insulting all those illegal aliens I witnessed in my old neighborhood of East Elmhurst putting out flags and wearing “our Colors” even while the Country may not have wanted them around – immigration and what not. People all over the United States cried for weeks and swore never to forget, blah blah blah.
Well. Here we are 7 years later. 09/11. Forgotten.
Hit CNN right now, and you’ll see what I mean. It isn’t even Headline News. September 11th has been trumped by Texans Fleeing Ike and stories about the disasters of Hanna among other things. Oh, wait, there’s 09/11 on the sidebar under “Latest News” on the CNN Home Page. How very much we forgot. Well, at least NY1.COM has it as a Top Story on their Home Page.
What’s more important than today? A hurricane? Has America become so complacent that we’re returning to our roots after the first attack on the World Trade Center? Why aren’t the memorials completed already? And why, oh, why in the hell did McCain and Obama visit the World Trade Center site? Even though they were, “[t]aking a day off from election squabbles…” If there isn’t Political motivation behind that visit then we’ve got something else to worry about.
Every year on this day I share MY STORY about what happened on that day, and I ask everyone to remember what happened, where they were, what they saw, who they were next to, at the moments when the airplanes ripped through the World Trade Center towers and in the minutes after each tower collapsed. I was running for my life. I was scared.
This year I’d like to ask you to find a quiet place, where you won’t be disturbed. Sit or lay down and think of nothing for 9 minutes, close your eyes for the last minute. Read my story. Now find the person you most love and be with them for 11 minutes without saying a word – and no other distractions.
I hope, as I usually say, that I don’t offend anyone that will read my story, but it is what it is, and it’s what I wrote.
09/11 – We Will Never Forget…
Please read… September 11th – My Story…
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