Journal: Contemplations on the Date

Well like everyone else on this day, I am contemplating 09-11. Unlike most I'm not dewling on the past, I'm thinking of the future.

People forget, they forget names, faces, events, facts, images. In 10 years when something has replaced the World Trade Center how log will it be before people remember what was there before. Sure there will be a memorial, but that will be what is in the past. How many people will go to see it. The buildings themselves were monuments to begin with. I've lived on the east coast all of my life, I've lived in NY and PA. I've driven from VA to MA, right through NYC and never stopped to see the buildings. How many hundreds of thousands will have been born that never saw the buildings except when they were blowing up on TV footage.

The worst thing that people forget is meaning. Many suspect that 09-11 will be turned into a national holiday. Many things happen on holidays, sales happen on holidays. How many years before we have a 09-11 sale? Sure, to you and me today, that seems tasteless. How could anyone forget the tragedy of lost lives? Yet every last Monday in May we celabrate the 'Memorial' of lost lives in wars with Sale upon SALE!!!!. So how would this be any diffrent.

Today is not the day to dwell on the past, it is time to look towards the future