In communities across the country we’re hearing “Remember 9-11.” Open the paper, tune the radio station, or flick the channels – the same old 9-11 nonsense is being spouted.
Some of it is downright morbid and obscene, like the memorial one of my nearby communities is having complete with a flag pole, yep, you guessed to be made from a steel cylinder from the World Trade Center, complete with a flag flown at the Pentagon, with a bonus added in – soil from near the site of the plane crash in Pennsylvania will be used to plant flowers and trees. I, for one, consider that to be gross – but, hey, whatever gets the emotionalism flowing…because that’s all it is. Emotionalism – identical and as meaningless as the same we witness on every other nationalistic holiday. Another nearby community is having a parade. There will be prayers at places, followed by social gatherings, of course. Any excuse to feel good about being an American, right?
9-11 was a tragedy, but not any more significant than the murders (unjustified killings) the U.S. government is responsible for in its acts of terrorism worldwide. I see no memorials for the tens of thousands of victims of the terrorism this government is responsible for. It is as if people of other nationalities and cultures just aren’t as important as Americans – at least not to the American people. But let a few (and that’s what it is, a mere few, in comparison to all the horrors, tortures, and deaths this government and its people are responsible for) Americans die at the hands of murderers, and people remember its anniversary every year.
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