--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: <snip> > > 9/11/2001. 9/11 is being marketed as if it were a product. > > No, it isn't. 9/11 was incredibly traumatic. Folks haven't > gotten over it yet. Anniversary observances are a way of > exorcising the sadness and anger they still harbor inside. > We had the same thing after the Kennedy assassination. It > took decades to get that out of our system; it's going to > take decades to do so with 9/11 as well.
>From an article in the New York Times: "Feeling Safer, but Still Wary. Polls describe a city and a nation that have not fully recovered emotionally from the events of 9/11, and do not want to forget." "...Almost 60 percent, both nationally and in New York, said the annual anniversary remembrances of 9/11 should continue. Less than 10 percent said the anniversaries should stop altogether, less than a fifth said there should be commemorations every five years and about 10 percent said they should be every 10 years. "'It's important younger people have some idea of what the generation before them went through, that they never forget what happened,' said Ethel Kruger, 76, a retiree from Cameron, Wis. 'It is very important they remember the people jumping, remember the people burning, remember the panic and the brave people that went in to save others, remember the loss of life and the healing issues. I think there is a very real possibility of the younger generation forgetting.'"... Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-reckoning/poll.html?hp http://tinyurl.com/4xtjwe9
