Posted on Jan 21, 2016
Should we make September 11th a national holiday?
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Sad to say but we have had hundreds of Americans killed and wounded in terror attacks on our soil since 9/11/01. We have memorial day and Veterans day to honor our fallen and ones who served. Why not officially name 9/11 as a federal holiday to remember not just the victims of the 2001 attacks, but all others since.
It is sad to see how many references to how Memorial Day and Veterans day are just a day to BBQ and buy tv's. It saddens me every year. It should be our responsibility to remind people what the true meaning of those day is. We should teach our children and grand children. The world is getting so damn politically correct that one day 9/11 will just be another day. We cant let that happen.
It is sad to see how many references to how Memorial Day and Veterans day are just a day to BBQ and buy tv's. It saddens me every year. It should be our responsibility to remind people what the true meaning of those day is. We should teach our children and grand children. The world is getting so damn politically correct that one day 9/11 will just be another day. We cant let that happen.
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Absolutely not. First, we already have enough Federal holidays. Shoot, I didn't even observe Martin Luther King Day... until I realized my kids weren't at school as I was heading out the door to work. December 7th formerly meant something to this nation. Over 3,000 people died in the attacks on Pearl Harbor <--No Federal holiday for that one! It is/was a tragedy. A very large tragedy. But to have our government shut down because of it? Well, that's exactly what the terrorist hoped for. I say we keep our government working to spite 'em!
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My initial thought: why make a holiday celebrating the successful attack of an adversary with whom we are still fighting?
I also think it's a bit myopic to suggest that this one particular event is more worthy of a federal holiday than any the many others that have impacted the course of US history. How about the start of the American Revolution (which began long before the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which Independence Day commemorates)? The start - or finish - of the War Between the States, in which so many more people were killed than in all of the terror attacks in US history? Or the surprise attack against the US that led to a Congressional declaration of war getting us involved in a World War? Or any of the almost innumerable other incidents and crises that mark our military history? Even if you want to look at numbers of innocents killed, we'd be better off having a holiday to commemorate automobile-related deaths than terror attacks: if a holiday can serve as an instructive guide for the future, even just cutting cutting those in half would save more than twice the lives preventing another 9/11 attack would save.
In terms of the crass commercialization of federal holidays, let's thank the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, passed in the late 1960s to standardize the three-day holiday weekend for Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day (though that one was eventually allowed to return to being celebrated on the eleventh day of the eleventh month)! It was politically popular and made both businesses and workers happy, and had the intended consequence of boosting retailers' ability to capitalize on holidays. Thanks Congress!
I also think it's a bit myopic to suggest that this one particular event is more worthy of a federal holiday than any the many others that have impacted the course of US history. How about the start of the American Revolution (which began long before the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which Independence Day commemorates)? The start - or finish - of the War Between the States, in which so many more people were killed than in all of the terror attacks in US history? Or the surprise attack against the US that led to a Congressional declaration of war getting us involved in a World War? Or any of the almost innumerable other incidents and crises that mark our military history? Even if you want to look at numbers of innocents killed, we'd be better off having a holiday to commemorate automobile-related deaths than terror attacks: if a holiday can serve as an instructive guide for the future, even just cutting cutting those in half would save more than twice the lives preventing another 9/11 attack would save.
In terms of the crass commercialization of federal holidays, let's thank the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, passed in the late 1960s to standardize the three-day holiday weekend for Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day (though that one was eventually allowed to return to being celebrated on the eleventh day of the eleventh month)! It was politically popular and made both businesses and workers happy, and had the intended consequence of boosting retailers' ability to capitalize on holidays. Thanks Congress!
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I would simply say no, I believe it should remain a day of remembrance. America has a tendency to forget the importance and significance of an event when it is made into a holiday. My example of this is Independence Day, which most people now refer to it as the 4th weekend, which in some ways blurs the history and sacrifice people made for our national independence.
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