Should 9/11/01 be a national holiday?

[rocketdog 0]

this thread is self-explanatory & i WILL offer my personal views later.... just not right now (i'm @ work, gotta be quick)!

every one on the radio yesterday believed September 11th should be an observed, national holiday. i don't. i asked the office girls & they all believe that it should ?!

i also blogged this on my MySpace (don't have a direct link)
http://www.myspace.com/asianyumyum it goes off on a tangent, but you get my view...

trying to make sense of it all? thoughts?

~hollywood

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[Gawain 0]

No more so than December 7, 1941 is currently observed, and it isn't a national holiday.

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[BillyVance 34]

It should not be a holiday.

A day of mourning where US flags are lowered to half-mast and the victims remembered in reverence, yes.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[rocketdog 0]

i agree-- so where are the (currently) 4 people who voted "yes"?

SPEAK UP!

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[shropshire 0]

As a Brit' it's none of my business... but I'd say no. Holidays are generally for fun, so that wouldn't be approproiate.

Like we also dont have a holiday for 11 Nov (rememberance day).

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Lindsey 0]

As long as it was only a holiday that year--9/11/01 was a holiday of the past....

linz

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A conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is just a conservative who's been to jail

[jumpergirl 0]

I voted yes.

I agree with BillyVance.

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A day of mourning where US flags are lowered to half-mast and the victims remembered in reverence, yes.

[SpeedRacer 1]

it's already been officially declared Patriot Day.

I think it should be celebrated by eating pork products, drinking alcohol, and looking at boobies. (just to piss off Osama)

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[shropshire 0]

<> - So, how does that make it different from any other day?

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[matthewcline 0]

I say "yes" in the form that it already is.
It is my opinon that many want it as a day off and are sadly using the September 11th attack as another way to stay home.

An Instructors first concern is student safety.
So, start being safe, first!!!

[StreetScooby 5]

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I think it should be celebrated by eating pork products, drinking alcohol, and looking at boobies. (just to piss off Osama)

When we catch UBL, we should give him some boobies (via sex change), then dump him back in Afghanistan naked. We could look at the SF pictures for many years to come, and enjoy them

We are all engines of karma

[Nightingale 0]

A national day of mourning, yes.
A national day of relaxing at the beach, no.

[warpedskydiver 0]

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A national day of mourning, yes.
A national day of relaxing at the beach, no.

Exactly, I am quite dissapointed that most people can't fathom the ideas of Memorial Day and Veterans Day, to them it is a day off, a sale, or a reason to get drunk and watch races.

[kallend 2,106]

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A national day of mourning, yes.
A national day of relaxing at the beach, no.

Exactly, I am quite dissapointed that most people can't fathom the ideas of Memorial Day and Veterans Day, to them it is a day off, a sale, or a reason to get drunk and watch races.

Maybe that's what freedom is all about - being free to do what you like, even on a national holiday.

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[Zenister 0]

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A national day of mourning, yes.
A national day of relaxing at the beach, no.

a National Day of doing whatever the fuck you want, because that is what Freedom means.

More Paid Days Off work is always good.

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Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

[rocketdog 0]

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it's already been officially declared Patriot Day.

...which is absolutely odd to me! (see my myspace blog above, although it's hard to follow)

in my mind, patriotism isn't about a holiday or having magnetic ribbons on your car. it's an ideal that HAS to permeate your thoughts & actions, every day of the year, not just on September 11th.

~hollywood

EDIT: when i made this poll i didn't mean OBSERVING or REMEMBERING 9/11/01, i meant should it be a national day where gov. offices are closed/schools are off/etc. i think a few are missing the difference...

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[billvon 3,071]

Nope, we should let it fade away.

The objective of terrorism is to use fear to accomplish one's objectives. The longer we keep the fear alive, the longer they succeed. We should note it in history books, and save our holidays for days/people/events we _want_ commemorated.

[kelpdiver 2]

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A national day of mourning, yes.
A national day of relaxing at the beach, no.

Exactly, I am quite dissapointed that most people can't fathom the ideas of Memorial Day and Veterans Day, to them it is a day off, a sale, or a reason to get drunk and watch races.

how many days of mourning do we need?

And why does this day get elevated over Dec 7th?

[warpedskydiver 0]

how many days of mourning do we need?

And why does this day get elevated over Dec 7th?

[pirana 0]

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Nope, we should let it fade away.

The objective of terrorism is to use fear to accomplish one's objectives. The longer we keep the fear alive, the longer they succeed. We should note it in history books, and save our holidays for days/people/events we _want_ commemorated.

I agree. This logic gets my vote.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[pirana 0]

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A national day of mourning, yes.
A national day of relaxing at the beach, no.

Exactly, I am quite dissapointed that most people can't fathom the ideas of Memorial Day and Veterans Day, to them it is a day off, a sale, or a reason to get drunk and watch races.

how many days of mourning do we need?

And why does this day get elevated over Dec 7th?

It gets elevated for 2 reasons:

1 - For political purposes.

2 - By lack of historical perspective.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[matthewcline 0]

Hmmm.

In hind sight, Billvon, your right.

I modify my vote to a Yes as noted in history and referenced on a Gov calendar.

An Instructors first concern is student safety.
So, start being safe, first!!!

[BillyVance 34]

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it's already been officially declared Patriot Day.

I think it should be celebrated by eating pork products, drinking alcohol, and women going around toplesslooking at boobies. (just to piss off Osama)

fixed it for ya.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[rocketdog 0]

something i hadn't necessarily considered:

i asked a co-worker the same question & she said it SHOULD NOT be because "it's a sad day that should have been prevented." basically, we failed our own citizens.

never thought of that!

~hollywood

see the world! http://gorocketdog.blogspot.com

[kelpdiver 2]

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i asked a co-worker the same question & she said it SHOULD NOT be because "it's a sad day that should have been prevented." basically, we failed our own citizens.

Quite a few felt the same way about Pearl Harbor. In the extreme, it was allowed to happen to get us past our isolationism in WW2. Much as 9/11 was used to return to finish off Iraq.

But it's hard to be 100% successful in prevention. There were several smaller scale ones before. This one just was much more successful than even the attackers had planned.