Easy come easy go?

[uberreiniger]

Anyone else besides me notice that 9/11 this year came and went almost completely unnoticed? I guess losing a few buildings just doesn't compare with losing an entire city. I'm sure I sound cynical, but I'm not. Just observing. Honestly, given how fickle humans are and how quickly they forget I'm honestly amazed 9/11 was observed with such intensity for as long as it was. On the other hand, it's a bit depressing how time flies as I can still remember everything about that morning back in 2001 very clearly and it still doesn't seem that long ago. 2001 was a year of huge transitions in my life anyway and 9/11 was just a sort of climax in the musical score that drove the point of it all home. Anyway, just a random observation, nothing more.

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[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

Actually, I noticed this too. Brian and I slept through most of the day and woke up to watch the Sunday night cartoons on Fox, but I am not sure if I even saw one 9/11 related thing the whole time we were watching. I mentioned something similar to Brian on Friday along the lines of "Gee... i wonder how they're going to split up the footage of tragedy between honoring 9/11 and making sure there's plenty of coverage on the Katrina aftermath."

I also observed how after 9/11, everyone was a little nicer to each other for maybe a week or two. Then it was back to "Get out of my way! I was here first! Give my pet lobby issue news time! Me! Me! Me!" fairly soon after. I found that more than a little disappointing. How quickly we like to forget things so we can get back to our comfortable, familiar, self-centered routines as a society.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I remember watching all that, and everyone being so amazed about how everyone was standing together and being unified, but I knew it wasn't going to last. All things considered, we should probably be humbled and amazed it DID last a week.

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

Actually I thought about it when I was at work and noticed that it was the 11th. I still remember that day too. I had a class that day, and the professor was a guy from New York. He made a big speech before class about how grateful he was that we all showed up. College students (especially drama students) will usually use any excuse to get out of class.

[batchix.livejournal.com]

We had another huge tragedy a few weeks ago and we're still recovering and cleaning up from that. Life takes precedent over death. But, no, it was observed in all horror as Discovery? or was it History? channel did that recreation of the flight that crashed in Pen... which I think is a little too soon and too real. :X I think that's more than enough. We also tend to not celebrate tragedies in this country. We don't observe a day for the victems of Hurricane Andrew, or huge plane crashes or hell... even wars! How many people observe the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor? Or ANYthing from the korean war. The people who were directly affected will never forget what happened, people who lost loved ones or who lived through it personal and up close- and observations and memorials will take place yearly in the place nearest to what happened. The rest of us move on, learn(I hope), and continue with the business of living... and so long as we don't forget, I think that's healthy. :/

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

CNN showed footage from the memorial service at Ground Zero, the freedom march in D.C. and the service in Pennsylvania. And there are a bunch of NYPD and Fire Dept people in NO, and they had their own ceremony. That was also mentioned on CNN. It took about 5 minutes away from the Katrina focus.
I think about it every 9/11, and still get tears in my eyes when they talk about it. I don't think much about Pearl Harbor, but I know my mom does, as she was alive at that time. I think its sad that there isn't more done, but I think this was just "year 4" which is far enough away to settle down on the ceremonies, but not one of the "big" anniversarys, like 5, 10, 20, etc years. We will see a resurgence of memories on the big anniversaries.
I still go back to how I felt after 9/11, and even as a kid after the Challenger exploded, and really how I feel now...the News shows SO much of it, that it gets overwhelming. Sometimes its better if the media just moves on. Maybe it's a good sign that 5 minutes on the ceremonies for 9/11 is all they showed.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I don't get overwhelmed by the media coverage the way so many people seem to. I'm the one still watching the media long after everyone else has gotten sick of it. I'm weird that way.

I still remember Challenger very well too and 9/11 is a day I can remember every single thing I did and the order in which I did it. There aren't many days like that. And it's a memory I don't want to lose.

Yea! I get to play the cynic!

[zombiecowboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it was mostly the focus on Katrina. It's still big on IFilm and the Daily Show. And, honestly, I think we NEED to still be focusing on healing from Katrina before we can re-mourn 9/11.

I think we should have an annual tragedy every August/September. It's a nice time of year for it; no big holidays to ruin, nice weather, and let's not forget how close it is to Election Day.

Maybe next year we can have that big earthquake in California. Lose a chuck of L.A. to the ocean. THAT would give their budget problems perpsective.

But I'm not picky.

Re: Yea! I get to play the cynic!

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

I second this L.A. idea. I just hope that no hurricanes sink my state before the earthquake sinks southern California, because I'd really like to see that. Yeah. I have always kinda not liked Los Angeles and all the crap they contribute to the world. Is that so wrong?

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[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I think every five years is a good enough time window for national tragedies. Gotta watch that tragedy fatigue.

[blkhmster.livejournal.com]

they had quite a few things take place out here in Utah, especially in Kaysville, where one of the flight 11 victims and her daughter were from. they had the field of flags in murray and they showed quite a bit of footage from that day...actually a good portion of the newscast was dedicated to the anniversary.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Glad someone is keeping the memory alive, even if it is the Mormons.

[blkhmster.livejournal.com]

i'm sure it will take it's place in alongside other big events in history. if we're lucky it'll garner the same amount of coverage that pearl harbor still does every year. sunday was also grandparents day.

[tempest-azure.livejournal.com]

I mentioned it to some friends, and it seemed like a lot of my friends didnt care so much. I think that this year Katrina took the headlines.

(as un-American this is about to sound) Remembering 9/11 is about as important as celebrating July 4th. If people dont understand what the two dates represent, then they dont know how important they are. And that is sad, cause it was only 4 yrs ago.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's kinda my point, actually.

[tempest-azure.livejournal.com]

yep. I got it :)