The 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is tomorrow. Usually I try to make it a day of solemn remembrance. Some may think it's morbid, reliving a horror we'd all rather forget. But in a society that is too easily desensitized and lulled into complacency, I don't ever want to forget the horror I felt that day, and how easily it can happen again if we don't stay passionately motivated to stop it. I don't want to forget that this was a deliberate, man-made atrocity, and the monsters who perpetrated it are all too eager to do it again. We need to stay angry and horrified as if it happened yesterday, because the day we cease to care is the day we become lazy and let our guard down. I'd rather re-live the past once a year than live through another horror we allowed to happen. This year, Sept. 11th will be a crazed day of last-minute preparations and good-byes, but still, I won't forget.
Monday, September 10, 2007
September 11th
The 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is tomorrow. Usually I try to make it a day of solemn remembrance. Some may think it's morbid, reliving a horror we'd all rather forget. But in a society that is too easily desensitized and lulled into complacency, I don't ever want to forget the horror I felt that day, and how easily it can happen again if we don't stay passionately motivated to stop it. I don't want to forget that this was a deliberate, man-made atrocity, and the monsters who perpetrated it are all too eager to do it again. We need to stay angry and horrified as if it happened yesterday, because the day we cease to care is the day we become lazy and let our guard down. I'd rather re-live the past once a year than live through another horror we allowed to happen. This year, Sept. 11th will be a crazed day of last-minute preparations and good-byes, but still, I won't forget.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment