Sounds silly, but I think I can say this on DU

[Kber]

I'm kind of glad the President has collectively given us something else to talk about besides the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

It's always a kind of tough day for us and my husband still suffers some PT'SD (he was in lower Manhattan that day and on the streets when the buildings came down).

We are planning on leaving the NYC area on Sunday and going to Philadelphia to spend the day with friends, partially just to have something to do further away from NYC.

The past few years have been better, partially because, unlike 10 years ago, the weather has been crappy, and it actually kind of helps that OBL has been killed, but I think this might be a tough year.

I'm happy to see something else on the front page. Silly, I know, but there it is.

[Boojatta]

1. Why couldn't OBL have been taken alive for trial at the Hague?

[ChandlerJr]

2. By whom?

The Reagan administration withdrew U.S. recognition of the World Court's compulsory jurisdiction.

[dionysus]

6. because he's at the bottom of the ocean. nt

[Wait Wut]

19. !

:spray:

[gratuitous]

16. Because we don't believe in our own Constitution

We also don't trust our justice system, and we're addicted to violence. We want instant, feel-good results without regard to consequences down the line. And when those consequences are visited on us, we pretend we're innocent victims of terrorism, because it's so much easier to forget our own actions and concentrate on the injury done to us.

That about cover it?

[mmonk]

3. Not silly at all.

[lillypaddle]

4. Relax & have fun in Philly

not silly in the least.

[HappyMe]

5. Not at all silly.

:hug:

[mopinko]

7. not at all silly, and a very good plan.

i have done that myself, do something different on a painful anniversary, and found it very helpful. create new memories.
good luck.

[SidDithers]

8. K&R...

Enjoy Philly. Keep the TV off.

:hi:

Sid

[kenny blankenship]

9. I'll recommend that

We need to talk about jobs & justice. We've needed to focus our energies on improving life here for the last ten years, instead of fucking life up elsewhere.

[Kber]

10. +1

[hedgehog]

11. If I may say so, there is a difference between being, say a Gold Star

mother and someone who heard the news of Pearl Harbor while at a football game that day. The people directly involved in the event and/or the clean-up will always be living with before and after; I respect their right to heal as much as they can in however fashion works best for them.

For other people though, while it is right and proper to remember those involved with respect, I think it is well past time to allow the survivors their privacy. I understand a New York based media making a big event of the 10th Anniversary just as they made a big deal of Irene. But I am uncomfortable with people in other places turning this into some sort of patriotic holiday.

I understand and respect Mayor Bloomberg for holding a ceremony for the families at Ground Zero. I am disgusted at Archbishop Dolan's trying to turn this into some sort of controversy over disrespecting the Catholic Church.

I sing in a church choir, and we will be singing two patriotic songs this Sunday. I am very ill at ease at tying Church and country together in any circumstances. Prayers for the dead and the living, OK, but not this. We're expected to wear red, white and blue. I don't think I can.

Maybe this is the last big public moment. I certainly hope so. Otherwise, we may someday see the big 9/11 sales!

[Kber]

13. Your "9/11 Sales" made me laugh!

I guess the healing can begin!

Thanks!!

I hope it's the last big public event, too and I think your remarks are 100% spot on.

[hedgehog]

14. I brought a moment of relief to someone who deserves it; my work is done here.

:hi:

[closeupready]

12. I don't want to hear or see anything 9/11 this weekend.

I'll be watching Netflix or maybe reading books. End of story.

[Jamastiene]

17. Same here.

I will privately stop to light a candle for the victims, but watching media coverage or any of that is not something I want to do.

I have Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs now, finally. I'll be reading that.

[Jamastiene]

15. More power to you.

I would imagine you are not the only one who feels that way.

I wasn't even personally affected (didn't lose anyone I know) and I don't want to relive that day either...ever. It was too horrible.

If getting away from it all on the anniversary day helps your husband, by all means, do it. Living through it once was already too much. Reliving it will be horrible all over again.

If there is a way you can keep his mind off that day and get him to enjoy something in life instead of focusing on the horror from 10 years ago, by all means, do it.

Not silly at all. K&R

[applegrove]

18. vibes to you both.

[democrat2thecore]

20. mopinko said it well above

"...do something different on a painful anniversary, and found it very helpful. create new memories."