I saw something the other day that really irked me. I was in my car driving, when I saw one of those huge decal/label/sticker things in someone's back window. It read, "Have you forgotten 9-11?" and had an American flag fashioned in the shape of the lower 48.
I'm pretty sure if you asked anyone in America above the age of ten years what happened on "9-11" you would get a recollection of planes hitting the World Trade Center towers. It's not a case of people forgetting 9-11. To forget means to have no recollection of (at least, the last time I checked). What I think the case is, and what the sticker is trying to accuse us of, is that we as a people have pushed it from the forefront of our minds. Apparently, by doing that, we (those who are not thinking about it 24-7) are bad people.
Don't get me wrong. What happened on that day was an abomination to mankind. To callously take that many lives without remorse, and supposedly in the name of god is, in my opinion, a one-way ticket straight to hell.
However, I think that we should move past it. We as a people should recognize it, deal with it, and remember it so it doesn't happen again, but we need to move past it. It's unhealthy to keep our focus on it. If you keep looking over your shoulder, you're not watching the road.
-D out.
