southerncrone
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Sat Sep-11-10 12:58 PM
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WHY are all of our "Days of Rememberance" always focused on BAD events? |
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Can we not get enough bad news w/o dredging up past bad news & keeping it alive? Do we not feel BAD enough what w/economy, health care, wars, etc. I don't understand it. (Or maybe I DO understand it, & just don't like it.)
Just some food for thought.
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Sat Sep-11-10 12:59 PM
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1. Because: Nothing bad happened. LET'S PARTY! |
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simply does not have the same impact.
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Sat Sep-11-10 01:02 PM
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2. because we call the good things we remember holidays |
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think fourth of july, christmas, thanksgiving, etc.
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Sat Sep-11-10 01:04 PM
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3. February 1964: Beatles land at JFK Airport. |
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Sat Sep-11-10 01:50 PM
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4. Because this country loves to wallow. eom |
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Sat Sep-11-10 02:26 PM
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6. Those who ignore and don't learn from history are likely to repeat it |
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Sat Sep-11-10 03:31 PM
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11. Good grief. We're hardly unique in commemorating tragedies. |
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People have always done that.
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Sat Sep-11-10 02:25 PM
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5. Most of our holidays are good days - remembrance implies something solemn and reverential |
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Edited on Sat Sep-11-10 02:27 PM by stray cat
something some progressives dislike if Americans are victims but would be in favor of if Americans were remembering their killing of Iraqis or non-americans
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Sat Sep-11-10 02:27 PM
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7. Because this is the land of the free and home of the lurid |
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Sat Sep-11-10 02:27 PM
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8. What remembrance days would you like to see? nt |
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Sat Sep-11-10 02:32 PM
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9. Bad days like Memorial Day (end of WWI), 4 of July, and Christmas |
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All of which I think were pretty good days
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:40 PM
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12. WWI ended on November 11. |
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Originally called Armistice Day, it's now called Veteran's Day.
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Sat Sep-11-10 03:29 PM
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10. today is my fathers and grandmothers birthday |
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both more of interest to me than other events that happened today
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:45 PM
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13. My birthday is May 16. Thanks for caring! nt |
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:45 PM
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14. Our Puritanical Heritage |
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We seem to think we deserve bad things and so wallow in them.
We can't do much about a good thing.
The idea of making 9/11 a holiday creeps me out.
And how many people are really happy on July 4?
And celebrate 9/17, Constitution Day?
We can't, because it's positive and we don't deserve good.
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:54 PM
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15. This isn't actually a day of remembrance for me. |
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9/11 was not a transformative event in my life. While I grieved for the victims and their families, I was, and am, offended by the political use the event was, and still is, put to. When I remember "9/11," I remember a nation that allowed fear and anger to set it on a path of destruction that is not yet done, and I am ashamed and disgusted.
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:55 PM
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16. I think July 20th should be a holiday for all humanity, personally. |
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:58 PM
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18. We celebrate Columbus Day--definitely! nt |
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Sat Sep-11-10 05:55 PM
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17. If it wasn't that way |
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and we celebrated national good days it would be because the bad out numbered the good so much that good was a rarity. :yoiks: :think:
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Sat Sep-11-10 06:03 PM
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19. Because it is important to remember the events in history that we don't want repeated. |
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