With the anniversary of 9/11

[samplegirl]

tomorrow... already seeing lots of never forget memes and posts.
To bad people could never show the same empathy to the first responders. Or to each merciless gun victims.
To every person who lost their life in Puerto Rico needlessly!

[applegrove]

1. 911 is as much for us to build on each year, as it is for the victims and

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their loved ones. We all have a relationship to that trauma. Just the sheer number of first responders who marched up those stairs to try and reach floors on fire with jet fuel, in two towers ... that kind of heroics changes something inside us all. Which is why it is a ritual and a story that is told with public involvement every year, again and again. Not that the other tragedies don't involved just as extreme heroics, it is that the public was witness to it at the world trade center and it was like an exploding star in our world.

[samplegirl]

2. And then we went to

war with the wrong country. I just think people should be equally upset that first responders got thrown under the bus. Is that the way we never forget?

[applegrove]

3. There were a lot of heros. We remember them. There were a few zeros

like Cheney and Bush. Tomorrow we remember the heros. And everyday we should celebrate heros. And learn from our mistakes. Or the mistakes of others.

[Danmel]

4. As someone who knows people who died on 9-11

And people who lost spouses and children and siblings, I think you can mark and commemorate the anniversary of the attacks without losing feeling for people affected by other tragedies.
Personally I knew two victims. A firefighter from our neighborhood, who was an FDNY member and a member of our community volunteer fire department., who also was a bone marrow donor who saved a young girl and also the son of friends of my parents. He was developmentally disabled and worked in the mail room at Cantor Fitzgerald. His parents were Holocaust survivors who came here after surviving Auschwitz, only to lose their only child in a terrorist attack.

http://www.legacy.com/sept11/story.aspx?personid=147299

I also became friends, years later, with a woman whose husband died at the trade center, leaving her widowed with two young children who don't remember their father.

I hate the hagiography of 9-11, especially by people who had no personal connection. But that doesn't diminish the reality of the tragedy for people who died and lost loved ones. And for the first responders who have suffered long term health consequences.

[Boomerproud]

10. So terribly sorry for your pain and the loss of your

friends. Beautiful tribute.

[tymorial]

5. You do realize some of us lost someone tomorrow right

[samplegirl]

6. Yes

I guess my point was how first responders got thrown under the bus.

[ChubbyStar]

8. Maybe you could change the title of your OP?

First responders on 9/11 got screwed or something like that, because as it stands your OP is extremely callous.

[tymorial]

9. I apologize

For some reason this showed up as a reply to my response.

That is why I responded with excuse me. I was seriously pissed.

Now I see it was a reply to the person above.