Right Wing Holiday

[underpants]

I don't like death. I've avoided it all my life. Sure, getting old sucks but it beats the alternative.
I hate funerals. I have skipped a few for the after party. I don't plan to actually be at my own - burn me up, put me around a tree, something.

I don't get the CELEBRATION of 9/11. What is good about this? Yes I get it NEVER FORGET. How can I? They keep bringing it up. At this point I am a bit surprised there aren't cards for it at Target.

Coming home from work I switched over to the local rightwing radio station. Local drive-time guy (following Rush) playing end of life phone calls from inside the towers. All of the commentary was NEVER FORGET furrowed brow don't you children understand to listen to your manly elders evil is everywhere nonsense.

They loves them some 9/11. It was literally the best thing that ever happened to them. A floundering Presidency suddenly was alive. I will truly never forget Peter Jennings saying "The election (2000) is now legitimized" or something like that. Jennings said that. That was when I realized that something was up.

They love 9/11. The local radio host was weirdly sad and gleeful at the same time. Listen to the suffering. Listen to it!! is the message.

(old man going on now) When I was a kid the 4th of July was about teachers and farmers and us. Thanksgiving didn't have a military element to it. Christmas wasn't about that either - and I spent 3 Christmases in Germany in the Army and trust me Christmas away from home SUCKS. But now everything is military and military (for some reason) = Republicans. Reagan I guess.

So it's their big day. W gets exulted for failing. Okay I was going to keep that out of it.

My 9 year old daughter doesn't really know about 9/11 yet. Sheltered? Yes, but her day wasn't consumed with tragedy, failure, evil, death, fire, panic, etc. Oh, jumpers we still don't see the jumpers.

If this is what they want for their holiday they can have it. But, I will never forget.

[RandySF]

1. 911 was the day the dogs were set loose.

Freedom-haters like John Ashcroft and torture fetishists like Cheney got their pretense to do all the things they only dreamed about before. And immigrant-haters like (ironically) Michelle Malkin found legitimization for their racist blogs.

[yeoman6987]

2. Even President Obama was talking about it today

We will never forget when it is everywhere.

[SheilaT]

3. Earlier today it took me a few minutes to figure out why flags were at half staff.

I do not get the glorification of what happened on September 11, 2001. There's a curious reluctance to move on, that is a crucial symptom of our culture and what it does wrong.

Keep in mind, in the years immediately after Pearl Harbor (just to name one particular incident), there were not constant reminders and remembrances. No. We fought the war and won and moved on.

It's the total inability to move on that bothers me.

[underpants]

4. The same thing happened to both my wife and I separately

Mine as I was leaving work I said to my coworker who I give a ride home "why is the flag at....oh".

My wife taking our daughter to soccer practice couldn't figure out why the car dealership flag was at half staff until she got home.

I understand to observance I just don't get the celebration.

[mmonk]

5. I don't worhip 9/11 either. It seemed to me to be the end of normal and unity.