Yep today is September 11th.
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that flag at half mast was "How many years will we celebrate this?"
It can't be indefinite, eventually people won't understand the significance of the date, but who decides how many years a country mourns a significant event like this? Or is there no specific year that we stop putting the flags at half-mast, but we just let the tradition die out on it's own?
I wondered that throughout the day.
But all in all, I have to say that 9/11 is a lot different today than it has been.
Our history class didn't even mention it, no one in school really mentioned it at all. I remember that the first year(s) after the event we would even play the national anthem over the P.A system throughout the entire school and have a moment of silence in the morning, no radio's brought it up... and I only saw maybe one station on the TV that had footage of the Twin Towers burning.
The point of this post?
I don't really know.... I guess just to point out how people move on and deal with major events and tragedies in their lives. Though we will always remember 9/11, our way of showing that to the world and ourselves changes every year... and becomes more and more soft spoken as time goes by, not that I think that's a bad thing; I don't believe we should hang on to the bad things in life.
But we shouldn't forget them either.
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