Mark42
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I heard on the radio this morning that as little as 6% of Americans will attend or observe a commemoration tomorrow.
My first response was that 9/11 should be made a Federal Holiday to remind the country that we are the target of many hateful peoples.
But then I began to compare the 9/11 event to the First and Second World Wars and wondered if it was a significant enough event to get a holiday like Memorial day.
After thinking about this for a few hours while stuck in a huge traffic jam, I decided that 9/11 events were worthy of a Federal Holiday to commemorate and memorialize the attack on this country and the resulting loss of innocent lives.
Your thoughts?
My first response was that 9/11 should be made a Federal Holiday to remind the country that we are the target of many hateful peoples.
But then I began to compare the 9/11 event to the First and Second World Wars and wondered if it was a significant enough event to get a holiday like Memorial day.
After thinking about this for a few hours while stuck in a huge traffic jam, I decided that 9/11 events were worthy of a Federal Holiday to commemorate and memorialize the attack on this country and the resulting loss of innocent lives.
Your thoughts?
However, I do think we forget why these things happen: Bad people who do really bad stuff, AKA Evil (shhhhhhhh, some people get really freaked out when we utter that evil word). We should never forget that there are "bad people who do really bad stuff", or somebody will convince us that we don't need a military, we don't need a CIA, we don't need prisons, we don't need the death penalty, we don't need surveillance, we don't need guns, we don't need stealth stuff, we don't need war . . . 
