How Much 9/11 Hoopla Is Too Much?

Alright, now don't get me wrong--I understand the significance of the day, I remember being terrified and sad when it happened, and of course we should remember it.

However, when not one but TWO people who work for a company criticize their company because they didn't fly their flags at half mast this year or send a company wide email recognizing 9/11...I begin to wonder how much is too much.

Is it really necessary to send a "OMG we shall never forget" email EVERY YEAR after 9/11? It's been seven years. I don't think any of us are soon to forget it and I don't see why people get up in arms when you're not all "flag waving" every 9/11.

I mean, on the anniversary of 9/11, this guy once posted on a message board indicating a local television network was planning to add the made for TV version of "The Music Man" three days before 9/11, and because of that was distasteful. (Not only was that not true, but the only thing that was distasteful was the movie itself because it sucked balls).

So...

I've found it's impossible to reason with SUPEROMGPATRIOTIC people, so I just stand back and let them have their fun.

Sept. 13: Never Forget

1971 A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

1999 An explosion devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 118 people.

1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.

Dang, I always forget Tupac was only 25.

dude, I feel like going out decorated with an American flag and a Tupac shirt right now....

Dang, I always forget Tupac was only 25.

Yea, his face was kinda old looking like Greg Oden.

FWIW I think the word "hoopla" is probably not the precise one you want here

hysteria I guess.

i was in mid-belch while typing the title and it scrambled my brain

This will be used to justify every war until at least 2050, so get used to it.

I'd never heard the Flight 93 recordings and they played them on Coast to Coast Thursday night. Broke my fucking heart.

I thought a lot of the 'never forget' stuff tapered off dramatically around 2004-2005. No candlelight vigils, announcements, 'Never Forget,' anything. Not anywhere I've lived (rural Idaho, populated Idaho, and New Mexico).

Just think, JFK getting shot is a big deal to our parents, D-Day for our grandparents. I can't name the day of either, and I don't think too many people my age can unless they're history lovers. September 11 will not mean anything to the next generation's kids, or grandkids...

Where do you live, Bo Jackson, and what was the workplace?

Also I like "The Music Man"!

Nov. 23, June 6. But I'm not your age and could arguably be considered a history lover.

also, Soukesian speaks true.

My husband and I were trying to figure out the dates of each last night...I knew JFK assassination was in November, but not the date, and I guess we were furiously wrong on D-Day, which we thought might have been in December. Some hot day in Hawaii, I'll bet.

Just think, JFK getting shot is a big deal to our parents, D-Day for our grandparents. I can't name the day of either, and I don't think too many people my age can unless they're history lovers.

Uhhhh . . . waht?

yeah!

Try a man-on-the-street type informal survey.

I understand the SIGNIFICANCE and IMPORT of JFK and D-Day, but not the details of D-Day, or the dates of either.

I guess most people will remember when the recent WTC terrorist plane attacks occurred because they're always called "September Eleventh."

Whereas Pearl Harbor Day (Dec. 7) was known by its locale, not date.

I live in Florida--to be fair, it shouldn't be a surprise, because the office environment is very "conservative" to begin with, not to mention...well, FL.

As far as the Music Man, I wasn't so much bashing that musical as much as the Matthew Broderick version :)

JFK was shot on November 22. It was a Friday.

Why compare to D-Day when you have Pearl Harbor?

I SEE plenty of that 911 shit around the burbs, bt people actually died in there from thems crazy towers. I don't know why the rest of the country gives a rat's ass.

I think the "details" of D-Day have been kept alive too, depending on what's meant by details - I mean, Saving Private Ryan, right?

saving private ryan much?

Quit trying to make "Saving Private Ryan" happen.

Captain Save-a-Private-Ryan

Ahmadinejad Calls 9/11 ‘A Big Fabrication’

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/ahmadinejad-calls-911-a-big-fabrication/

just read that. even at my most cynical I doubt I could believe our gov't had anything to do with 9/11, nor that we embellished as much as he says, but he's right that the USA used it as an excuse to do shitty things. but that's as 'shocking' a revelation as being told Flava Flav likes titties...

"911 this joke is over"