"As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough? By N. R. KLEINFIELD. Again it comes, for the sixth time now — 2,191 days after that awful morning — falling for the first time on a Tuesday, the same day of the week. Again there will be the public tributes, the tightly scripted memorial events, the reflex news coverage, the souvenir peddlers. Is all of it necessary, at the same decibel level — still? 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.'"
Incredible! "September 11 fatigue"? After 10 years they are still grieving Princess Diana in England. After 44 years we are still mourning the loss of President John F. Kennedy. After 66 years, World War !! veterans still weep when they remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet we are expected to find September 11 tributes "fatiguing" after 6 years? Why? The media is at fault here for having downplayed the scope of the attacks and for having not shown the film footage enough. "Fatigue"? There must be something wrong with me, then, because I'm not the slightest bit fatigued, and I intend to keep remembering.
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I can appreciate the difficulty of the day, but I can't imagine ignoring it. It is too important.
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