We had a "moment of silence" for the anniversary in the group program today. But I sat there the whole time thinking that we the people've reached the point of oversaturation on the 9/11 stuff. Granted, it's still fresh, and it's probably that one big tragedy in our generation (assuming we're all coming from the mid 20s - early 40's crowd). But have we really needed two films on the subject (within 6 months of each other, no less) before the 5 yr anniversary? Isn't there a statute of limitations on something like that? I mean, shit, I read somewhere that a good rule of thumb in wrestling is to not redo a gimmick/angle until it's seven or more years old ... and that's wrestling, for God's sakes, not a national tragedy.
We were on an outing and the guys (I drive what's called "the guys' van") were talking about how it was sad and all, but "how can we move on" if we spend all our time revisiting the horrors of the past. "It happened, we got hurt, we learned from it, now we gotta move on ... ain't that what you tell us, Mister Nate?" I'll be goddamned; a bus full of mentally ill from hodunk-podunk South Carolina can get what a nation of millions can't. If anyone needed to know the difference between mentally ill vs. mentally retarded, add that to the evidence pile.
So, anyway, Happy September 11! I can't wait until we're given a Monday off from work for it, and you know it's coming, but I hope that it happens before I retire so I can enjoy it. Don't really know how you'd celebrate something like that ... I think anything involving fireworks would be pretty fucking tacky, though.
Monday, September 11, 2006
So, um, yeah, it's Sept. 11teenth and all
1 comment:
You, sir, are a terrist. I guess I am too, since I felt pretty much the same way about this stuff.
Up until your comment about the difference between the mentally ill and the mentally retarded, the funniest thing I had read all day was a synopsis from the USA Today OnDeadline blog about a story from the Des Moines Register:
"As the years go by, The Des Moines Register writes today, teachers in Iowa 'are finding fewer students who remember the events' of Sept. 11, 2001.
'Many of today’s college freshmen were only 13. High school freshmen were still in elementary school. And kindergartners were just being born,' the Register notes."
Other things these kids don't remember the events of: the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster, the Iran Hostage Crisis, Pearl Harbor, the Hindenburg crash, and several sackings of Rome.
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