I have no problem with the 9/11 memorials.

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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun Sep-11-11 10:43 AM
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I have no problem with the 9/11 memorials.
   
Perhaps some find them to be overkill, or "not genuine", but for others the grief is still quite real and near. I happen to appreciate the public display of empathy, compassion, mourning, and remembrance. I feel that it's inappropriate to dismiss it all as "wallowing in fake grief". The word "wallowing" implies that it's all just a bunch of self-indulgent melodrama, and that seems like a cruel assumption to make about people whose grief and pain could be very, very real.

No one can feel someone else's heartache. Who are we to pontificate about whether someone else's grief and pain are legitimate or not? Why not practice a little liberal compassion and give people the benefit of the doubt, instead of assuming the worst about everyone and everything? What a world we could have if all of us suspected each other a little less and practiced kindness a little more.

If you don't like the memorial events, then turn them off--a few days without TV isn't going to kill you. In the meantime, please let the people around you mourn in peace.

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mfcorey1 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun Sep-11-11 10:44 AM
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun Sep-11-11 10:48 AM
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2. What is not genuine about today is the media
   
They have made a circus of this. And they will continue to.

A little bit of decency at DU.

[BlueStateSaint]

I agree with those three DUmmies.  I'd even H5 them if I could.

[Ballygrl]

I took my Mom out for a haircut then we ran into the grocery store for a couple of things, on the way home she said "there's so many shows on all day about 9/11, it's just too much", then she said "I'm glad the news isn't showing the people jumping from the building", I told her they should be showing those pictures of the jumpers on the news, people need to be reminded what happened that day.