Did you know today was 9/11 ??

[kentuck]

I am turning off my TV until some football comes on or a good movie. How much longer must we wallow in this. Yes, we are sorry for the 3000 victims killed that day. And we are sorry for the million people killed because of that day.

But, must we continue to use that day as the reason to continue these useless wars? I wonder, after WWII, how many hours we devoted to the attack on Pearl Harbor? Personally, I don't need any more of your mind-warping propaganda..

[monmouth]

1. You are sooo correct. TV OFF!! I said a prayer, that's it. Let's move on....n/t

[calimary]

37. If any TV is on in our house, it's the Food Network.

I'm not going to participate in the National Mope. I have no interest in marking the day America changed - and the terrorists won (and the nutcases rose up and did everything they could to assist).

[babylonsister]

2. Just maybe it's a day to honor and remember the dead.

Personally, I don't know why you think it's propaganda. Should we just sweep it all under the rug? I don't think that would work either.

[kentuck]

4. I think it would be more appropriate to say a prayer and meditate...

I do not see the buildings come crashing down one more time.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. "Mediatate" = BEST inadvertant neologism EVER!

:rofl:

[kentuck]

13. Thanks a_m..

IS it too late to refudiate that?

[chimpymustgo]

21. It's appropriate for us to THINK about what happened. WHY. And the LIES we've been fed.

And what resulted from those lies.

[stray cat]

3. Do something productive and stop watching -is it propaganda if you sit and stew in front of the tv t

No one has you tied to a chair

[kentuck]

6. I did.

Just like you, I signed on to DU. :-)

[dems_rightnow]

5. We still recognize Pearl Harbor annually

Though without the raw pain it once held.

It's good and right that we continue to remember our dead.

[mike r]

7. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11

Yes, it was a horrific crime, and every asshole involved in it should be killed until they're dead.

I'm freakin' sick and tired of the propaganda.

[liberal N proud]

9. It cranks my chain how both the radicals and the media has capitalized on this day

It is sick!

[Champion Jack]

10. +1,000,000,000,000,000

[peekaloo]

11. Yes. It's my brother's birthday.

;-)

[calimary]

38. It's Markos "Daily Kos" Moulitsas's birthday today too.

[malaise]

12. Turn on ESPN and watch the Champions League

Twenty 20 cricket tournament - pure fun. Nice game in progress and another one coming up after this one.

After that I'm watching tennis before we head out to a fish fry.

[kentuck]

15. Friends are coming down from Denver later this morning...

and want to visit Manitou for dinner and some shopping. I have been so ill that I don't think I can do it...

[malaise]

22. Get well soon

If you don't feel well enough don't go. :grouphug:

[Va Lefty]

14. I agree

I don't need a bunch of squawking heads to remind me what happened on this day. We lost a lot more than 3000 lives that day.

[calimary]

40. No kidding.

Sad but true.

[marmar]

16. Amen to that.....

I dread this day every year now because of the shameless exploitation.

[onehandle]

17. 09/11/1986 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever.

I believe Ronald Reagan was President.

[Thav]

18. Yes

Yesterday was september 10th. so today is september 11th, 2010. Tomorrow will be september 12th. And next week will be september 18th.

Say a prayer, have a moment of silence, and don't succumb to the hatred and bigotry that is sweeping the nation.

[disidoro01]

19. It will become less raw over time

Should we drop any and all memorials for people who have died? Bullshit, I don't need the commercialism but I am certainly thankful that my Uncle finished his job on the plaza a day early (9/10/01) and my Aunt had taken the day off. You don't like this being used to propagate wars, tell the president to get the fuck out of Afghanistan and Iraq(We still have about 50,000 over there). We give tribute to the dead in this country, get over it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. I guess I could live with it if it wasn't being pounded the other 364 days, too.

:argh:

[amandabeech]

23. I'm watching the MSNBC replay of the Today Show's coverage of the event back in 2001.

This is a sad day. Many, many people lost their lives or were severely injured.

It lead to Afghanistan and Iraq.

I think about D-Day on every June 6 and Pearl Harbor on every December 7, and those were both before my time.

I'll always remember all three, and I sincerely hope that there will be no more days like them.

[Xenotime]

24. Happy 9/11 day All!

[slackmaster]

25. Happy? Maybe. I'm going to go out and buy a few things, and eat some good food.

I'm not "over it", but that hasn't affected my appetite.

[jumptheshadow]

43. Not cool

Very insensitive.

[smokey nj]

47. Your post made me think of this Onion article:

Cheney Waits Until Last Minute Again To Buy Sept. 11 Gifts

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cheney-waits-until-last-minute-again-to-buy-sept-1,2521/

[AngryOldDem]

26. I consider this day as the annual reopening of the national wound.

I find the politicization of this day to be a profound insult to the victims and their families. We need to move on from this -- because it's gone from true memorializing to exploitation to keep the fear and loathing at fever pitch.

Not saying we should never forget, but it's time we start to find some kind of closure.

[Arctic Dave]

27. Agreed. It has gone from a day of remembrance to a day of agenda pushing.

If I have to hear another, "I was ten miles from were it happened I could have died!" story I think I will barf.

[lib2DaBone]

28. TV Off. If only someone would have taken a debris sample from WTC-7

...and had it analyzed (911 was a crime scene) we would not be watching this propaganda.

The perpetrators of 911 would be in jail and we would know the truth.

[MrMickeysMom]

29. I don't commemorate the NEW Pearl Harbor any more than the OLD

Television destroys the mind, unless used judiciously!

[Swamp Rat]

30. "9/11" keeps on giving: More distraction away from real problems like:

The slow, 'kinder and gentler' demise of democracy.

[Ishoutandscream2]

31. Big K and R

Take a moment, and then move on. That's the healthy perspective.

I have errands to do today, and I'm glad football is on today. It will keep me away from all of the flag waving melodrama (I hope, except maybe at halftime of the games).

[Madam Mossfern]

32. We had a short memorial service

at town square. Maybe 40-50 people attended. A few words, a short prayer, "God Bless America" and lit a candle. Maybe 20 minutes in all.

My only complaint was that the reverend who offered the prayer did it in the name of all who believe in Jesus Christ. Oh well.......

[Brother Buzz]

33. Some groups are chosing to move forward. No wallowing for them, they've got work to do.

Sacramento interfaith leaders plan 9/11 'blessing of peace' on Quran

More than 50 members of Sacramento's interfaith community - including Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Quakers, Muslims and Druids - will meet at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of 9/11, for a "blessing of peace on the Quran."

The 7 p.m. event, on the steps of the cathedral at 11th and K streets, is designed to blunt the threats of Florida Pastor Terry Jones to burn the Quran.

Jones' associates said today that no Qurans will be burned, but organizers of Saturday's event "wanted to send an alternative vision from America - placing roses on the Quran as a symbol of peace and tolerance. The World Peace Garden in Capitol Park has agreed to supply us with three dozen roses," said the Rev. David Thompson, president of the Interfaith Service Bureau.

"Afterwards the roses will be given to Muslim families," Thompson said. "Whether or not the Florida pastor goes through with his scheme to burn copies of the Quran, we in Sacramento are hopeful of bringing cooperation and peace here as we try to undo the damage already done, to protect our troops and to affirm our Muslim brothers and sisters here in America and around the world."

Non-Muslims will give seven readings from the Quran.

"The passages are chosen to show there are peaceful, wonderful passages from the Quran," Thompson said.

Each reader will then place a rose on the Quran.

There will also be reading from Hebrew and Christian scriptures - "correctives from the faiths Terry Jones is supposed to be representing," Thompson said.

Father Michael Kiernan of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament will read from Matthew 5: "Blessed are the peacemakers. They shall be called sons and daughters of God."

The Hebrew scripture, from the second chapter of the prophet Isaiah, declares, "God will wield authority over the nations and adjudicate between many people; these will hammer their swords into ploughshares, their spears into sickles. Nation will not lift sword against nation, there will be no more training for war."

The seven blessings from the Quran each carry the message, "Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me," Thompson said. "Everyone in Sacramento who cares about this issue and wants peace and to show kindness to Muslims is encouraged to bring the gift of a rose and place it on the Quran. Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with us."

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/10/v-mobile/3020147/sacramento-interfaith-leaders.html

[Saboburns]

34. Just becuse I choose to remember the vicims doesn't make a dupe

Please.

Get a grip.

I am fine by remembering innocent people murdered, traumatized, etc. There were thousands of genuine heroes that day. I will honor them.

Salaam Alaikum.

[kentuck]

35. Nobody said you shouldn't remember them...

??

[needledriver]

36. Yes. It's my Dad's 90th birthday. n/t

[ChazII]

39. 1984

Sept. 11 was when my son was born. So this date has always been important to me.

[Liberal_in_LA]

41. yes, I knew. It will remain a day of mourning for the USA for a very long time

[jumptheshadow]

42. Of course I did

I will always remember the horror of that day. I will remember the clouds of dust that settled on my neighborhood, the people crying in the streets and the smell of that fire burning for weeks. I will remember seeing the Squad 1 fire truck go zooming by with 12 men who never came back. I will vividly recall the happiness in a friend's eyes during the previous week when she talked about how she was going to Grand Canyon on the next Tuesday for a rare holiday. On the ride into the airport she heard the news about the WTC and realized that her brother was working on one of the top floors. Her vacation was cut short and the long grieving process began. I may always be spurred by the sound of sirens or bagpipes into an anxious moment. September may be perpetually difficult for me; it seems like a biological thing now, and as the date approaches I withdraw into a shell.

I can be a good liberal and against the "war on terrorism" and I could have wept when the Iraq War started and still have these memories and feelings.

[shanti]

44. yes, and i hear the fighter jets too

there's an airshow here today. yee ha.

[Brickbat]

45. Our town left the flags from Labor Day up until this weekend and I'm really hoping in the future

that the "recognized" Labor Day and the faux-pious televised mourn-porn don't run together into some bizarre patriotic chimera celebration.

[Initech]

46. It's absolutely disgusting the way the media exploits this tragedy.