Each year, murmuring about Sept. 11 fatigue arises, a weariness of reliving a day that everyone wishes had never happened. It began before the first anniversary of the terrorist attack. By now, though, many people feel that the collective commemorations, publicly staged, are excessive and vacant, even annoying.
"I may sound callous, but doesn't grieving have a shelf life?" said Charlene Correia, 57, a nursing supervisor from Acushnet, Mass. "We're very sorry and mournful that people died, but there are living people. Let's wind it down."
The author quoted asks "when enough is enough?" When can we stop remembering 9/11?
These people are highly confused. They are mixing 9/11 up with Princess Dianna's death anniversary, or something. This isn't a weepy remembrance of a tragic loss to be mourned. I was past mourning by about September 13, 2001.
This anniversary is about remembering what a bunch of addled losers unfit to bag groceries without crushing the bread under canned goods can do to us with free access to our society and hopped up on the hatred and money supplied by fanatical jihadi ideology. I guess some want to forget 9/11 so they can ignore the need to fight the murderers who hate us.
This September 11th anniversay is about remembering why we are at war and will continue to be at war until we chase down the killers, strangle the ideology that spawns such evil, and plant the seeds of just society in the Moslem world so that jihadi ideology doesn't grow back again once we are back to being consumed by Shark Attack Summers and Britney Spears' underwear preferences. That result will be "enough."
This is an anniversay to remind us that we must win this war. I am not weary of remembering 9/11. And I am not weary of hunting down the bastards that killed nearly three thousand of us that day and seek to kill even more if they could.
Remember, our first counter-attack in the war on terror took place on 9/11, when the passengers of United Flight 93 defeated the hijackers and saved the White House or Capitol Building from destruction.
Which is why I will never half-staff my flag on September 11. Let's roll, people.
