A not so popular question...

[archlotus]

Why are we* still observing 9-11?

By "we" I mean our government and related agencies. Even my town has some commemoration of the event. Why is that? It was 6 years ago. If memory serves, we had only one commemoration of the OKC bombing. Why was there nothing on April 19th this year? Was it the number killed? The spectacular nature of the deaths?

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[hope4jessica]

I have often wondered the same thing... and found that having been near NYC when this all happened and still watching the NYC news... is that the families don't want to let go there...

I mean... my god they wanted to move the services off of the site, cause it is now a construction site, and the families took the city to Court. It wasn't enough to have it near the site... It had to be on the site. I listen to this and wonder when people will learn to move on, and yet I see they haven't. Many people still haven't been willing to acknowledge that there family member died... they are still holding on to the hope that they will be found... or at least that if nothing is found of them, they disappeared into the sun. I don't really understand why they won't move on.

I know it was a day that changed our understanding of the world, but I still get sick of friends that I had and needing to walk on egg shells around them... It was a horrible thing to watch... Real Life didn't make it any easier to watch... and now you move on... Maybe in another 20 years when a lot of the parents of the kids who died have moved on... the whole remember will die down... and we will truly understand what effect this had on our world.