Comments on: Quotations That Helped Us Through 9-11 https://www.quotationspage.com/weblog/2006-09-11-quotations-that-helped-us-through-9-11/ A weblog from the web's original quotations site. Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pordapod https://www.quotationspage.com/weblog/2006-09-11-quotations-that-helped-us-through-9-11/#comment-59 Pordapod Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:17:07 +0000 http://www.quotationspage.com/weblog/?p=449#comment-59 <p>Am I a bad American for not mourning this day? Am I a bad person because I know that a lot of people died today, yet I don't feel any different than I did yesterday. It is because I know that this event didn't affect me directly? It could have, my uncle works in the Pentagon quite often, but he wasn't there then, so why I do I try so hard to make it something that affects me deeply? </p> <p>Why do so many people do that? I just saw recently, some other guy on some forum yelling that kids should have this day off. He says he lost 2 uncles and his aunt in the attacks, but is he right? Should we treat this day as a special one, even if nothing happened to us. I know today there is a memornial at school, by not being there, am I not a real american? I love America, it is my home after all. Yet still... I don't feel the need to mourn a day that for me, didn't show us being weak or in pain, but rather showed what we could do when we join together. The whole nation sat on the edge of their seat 5 years ago, and for a second, as those towers fell, I think we were really united. The outward cry afterwards was so great, it was incredible.</p> <p>This nation is amazing when we unite, in one voice. I can't help but feel kinda sad it takes something of this scale to make us care.</p> <p>So if I go on today, do my homework, study, talk to that cute girl, and just live normally am I a bad person? What if I do all that, with the knowledge that if we all worked together, without a tragedy, we could solve the problems that hurt us so.</p> <p>We need to live again, we cannot let ourselves get too wrapped up in things. We must remember, but never mourn. They would of wanted us to be happy, all of them.</p> Am I a bad American for not mourning this day? Am I a bad person because I know that a lot of people died today, yet I don’t feel any different than I did yesterday. It is because I know that this event didn’t affect me directly? It could have, my uncle works in the Pentagon quite often, but he wasn’t there then, so why I do I try so hard to make it something that affects me deeply?

Why do so many people do that? I just saw recently, some other guy on some forum yelling that kids should have this day off. He says he lost 2 uncles and his aunt in the attacks, but is he right? Should we treat this day as a special one, even if nothing happened to us. I know today there is a memornial at school, by not being there, am I not a real american? I love America, it is my home after all. Yet still… I don’t feel the need to mourn a day that for me, didn’t show us being weak or in pain, but rather showed what we could do when we join together. The whole nation sat on the edge of their seat 5 years ago, and for a second, as those towers fell, I think we were really united. The outward cry afterwards was so great, it was incredible.

This nation is amazing when we unite, in one voice. I can’t help but feel kinda sad it takes something of this scale to make us care.

So if I go on today, do my homework, study, talk to that cute girl, and just live normally am I a bad person? What if I do all that, with the knowledge that if we all worked together, without a tragedy, we could solve the problems that hurt us so.

We need to live again, we cannot let ourselves get too wrapped up in things. We must remember, but never mourn. They would of wanted us to be happy, all of them.

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