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Thread #84561 Message #1561142
Posted By: GUEST
11-Sep-05 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Anniversary of 9-11 (01)
Subject: RE: Anniversary of 9-11 (01)
I'm really not into the whole memorializing of 9/11, and I don't do anything to "celebrate" or "remember" it. Of course, the Bush administration is still trying to get all the political mileage it can out of it, so I'm very cyncial about the official memorialization of the day by them.
Really, these were almost exclusively civilians killed and hurt. I think it is more appropriate to let those families who lost loved ones decide how they want to spend the day. There has always been an aspect of national exploitation (by the Bush admin & the media) of what should have been private grieving. I was all for a national memorial one year on, but that was all I ever thought appropriate. Now I think the memories of those lost is best left with their loved ones--give them some privacy, I say.