9/11

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Lest We Forget

“America is starting to forget September 11th, 2001. It is a natural process—much of today’s population was either not born at the time or too young to remember, and those cursed with being merely alive but not participating in the true grief of the event are growing exhausted of the burden. . . .

“[T]he fact that the smoke plumes continue to flood our TV screens has turned the barrels of cynicism on the media, after so many years of being aimed nearly exclusively at the government. In the Washington Post, columnist E.J. Dionne writes dismissively that ‘we have looked back for too long’ on the attacks, giving weight to a group, al-Qaeda, over which ‘our country and the world were never threatened by the caliphate of its mad fantasies.’ MSNBC’s Touré, in an otherwise thoughtful reflection on the commercialization of 9/11, compared the sharing of experiences on that day to an ‘AA meeting,’ as if anyone with a platform who publicly shares their pain chose to indulge a vice that made them junkies of their own indelible memories.”

—Frances Martel, columnist, “We Are Forgetting: Why 9/11 Commemorative Programming Is Necessary,” 2011

Photo credit: El Marco

 

• Editorial Comment: “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

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