Sep. 11 - Never Forget That Day We Didn't Forget to Remember
Today is an important day. It's a day that we remember a day that remembered an important event. It's finally happened.
The three-year anniversary of the two-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
September 11th, 2003. I remember it like it was a year and a half ago. A Thursday like any other Thursday. My senior year of high school. Rehearsals for Much Ado About Nothing were just underway, the prospect of college was in my sights, and I woke up that morning thinking it would be a typical school day.
How wrong I was.
I turned on the news to see those tragic images. Suddenly all the memories came rushing back. The death. The destruction. The sorrow. I remember being in the same place two years prior and all the anger I felt towards Saddam Hussein, the man responsible for the tragedy. I never would have thought he could tie those suicide bombers onto WMDs; flying over 6,000 miles to deliver their precious cargo of murder and freedom-hating. It's a good thing every channel decided to replay that footage, otherwise I would have completely forgotten. Anniversaries are important, for they incessantly remind us of things we're all completely aware of. September 10th, 2003 was ignorable horseshit. But not September 11th. That particular anniversary sticks out in my mind more than any other.
So much has changed since 2003. Back then, the conflict in Iraq was a mere baby war, in tune with a Grenada, Kosovo, or Spanish-American. Janet Jackson was preparing for her most tit-tacular Super Bowl performance ever, paving the way for overreaction and censorship to be cool again. Bush was in his first term, still getting his sea legs. And Senator John Kerry had yet to break onto the political main stage with his losing strategy of droning logic and soporific compassion. It was a gay olde time.
Now it's three years after that epic day; time to remember once again. The old news footage is dusted off, and America comes together to reiterate jingoistic bumper sticker slogans and compile montages of crying bald eagles masturbating into Uncle Sam's mouth.
It's comforting to know that the news media allow us to remember an event that none of us forgot in the first goddamn place.
September 11th, 2003: Never forget to keep on remembering.
Note: Be sure to show your patriotism by purchasing the World Trade Center Gold and Silver Clad Commemorative Pop-Up Coin, which somehow encapsulates everything wrong with America. Belittle the deaths of thousands! Only $29.95!
Posted by Nick Nobel
