EACH YEAR the memory of the world trade center becomes a tiny bit less vivid, and there will come a time when it has receded into history, like the alamo, the maine, and peral harbor. There was a time when all three of those other seminal, tragic, violent aggressive events were acknowledged each year, march 6 for the alamo, december 7 for pearl harbor, and whenever (1898) for the maine.
Now, those days slide quietly by, with only a glimmer of remembrance.
And this is how it should be. We really wouldn't want our descendents a hundred years from now to make a big deal out of september 11, 2011, anymore than we do november 22, the assassination of JFK. Back in the late nineteen sixties november 22 was a hard day to swallow each year, now fifty years after the event, we pay only slight lip service to it.
We no longer wonder what Knnedy would be doing now, had he not been shot, because he would be ninety five years old, and he would be dead anyway.
The people of the year 2112, if there are any, will have other, newer commemorations to make. All of our sacred dates, like september 11, will have receded into the backs of their minds.
And this is normal, this is natural, this is how it should be.
And this fact of human nature will never diminish the herosim of the brave people who died that day. May the dear lord bless and keep them, and us all, for having to suffer their loss, and we offer thanks to our creator, for giving us the power to heal ourselves through time...
Bb
Thank You.
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