It's that day again.
Sep. 11th, 2004 02:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly9/11.
The day the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in 1297.
What, you were thinking of another 9/11?
Sorry, I know, not solemn. But in another thousand years - hell, probably in another hundred years, nobody will care too much about today. Very few people care too much about December 7th, though of course they know what that day was. Nobody remembers exactly when the Boston Massacre was, and they certainly don't think about it yearly. I'm sure there's plenty of people who remember that OTHER 9/11, but I doubt they dwell on it. And people *do* dwell on it. Conversations just drift back there. While I feel generally bad about the dead, and I do think we'd all have been better off without it (for one thing, we mightn't be in Iraq, because we all know that was the excuse)... but I don't think it's healthy, the way people keep talking. "Never Forget" is a nice watchword, but how can you live your life if you really never forget, not for a second?
The day the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in 1297.
What, you were thinking of another 9/11?
Sorry, I know, not solemn. But in another thousand years - hell, probably in another hundred years, nobody will care too much about today. Very few people care too much about December 7th, though of course they know what that day was. Nobody remembers exactly when the Boston Massacre was, and they certainly don't think about it yearly. I'm sure there's plenty of people who remember that OTHER 9/11, but I doubt they dwell on it. And people *do* dwell on it. Conversations just drift back there. While I feel generally bad about the dead, and I do think we'd all have been better off without it (for one thing, we mightn't be in Iraq, because we all know that was the excuse)... but I don't think it's healthy, the way people keep talking. "Never Forget" is a nice watchword, but how can you live your life if you really never forget, not for a second?
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Date: 2004-09-11 07:56 am (UTC)Took me a good half-mile before I realised what it was that I was supposed to be remembering.
Horrible awful thing that happened? Sure. Horrible awful thing that happened that we deserve to be victims of and remember forever and ever because oh, woe, nobody has it as bad as us???
Sorry. No.
(Crap. This whole comment is incoherent. That's it. Don't ever let me reply to ANYTHING before noon.)