What will this week bring?
 

This week will be very emotional and difficult for many people, families and friends. What does the 10th anniversary mean to you. Do you remember it, try to block it out or will you change some behavior this week to show respect for what happened ten year ago this coming Sunday.

Do you feel this is a special time or just another week in your life?

I wish we didn't have to get deluged with it but yet I also think it's a necessary process.

Just curious. I'm hoping it will be a quiet, reflective and uneventful week.

Plan to avoid the TV, internet next Sunday.

Too much on TV channels other than history (which should have shows about it) and news and CSPAN and such. I want my regular shows on the science channel.

I feel that the ones murdered on that fateful day would want to be remembered by their loved ones and for the rest of us to get on with our lives.

I will watch every thing I can on the subject. Should be mandatory for every American..

NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!

I'm spending the weekend helping my step son build a deck and completely ignoring the 9-11 sob fest.

+1

that are two of us.

Just as I do not need a lapel pin to be patriotic, I don't need an anniversary to remember.

I plan on avoiding all mass media and reliving my memories my own way. I will avoid the talking heads shouting at me what a tragedy it was. I think we all knew that without the mawkish screaming. I too long for a quiet, reflective and solemn week. I will make it one in my small part of the world.

Using the murder of 3K Americans, and then the follow-on deaths of men and women serving our country in "response" to the act, as a platform for political grandstanding and ratings boosts is the worst kind of unpatriotic tripe. The 24/7 news cycle is a cancer that is eating the soul of the country.

Turn off the TV. Talk to your friends. Make something with your hands. Hug your kid.

I remember being in Publix buying flowers and balloons with my daughter on 9/11. They had a "moment of silence" while we were in the store. Some lady started giving me crap because my four-year-old daughter was just too excited to comply. The lady changed her tune when I told her that my son had been born that morning.

He'll be ten this coming Sunday.

...You can't let tragedy steal happiness from your life.

Amen!
 

Amen to that! I may have to brew a beer or go to the gun range with my family...

I will go mountain biking on 9/11. I go every year on that day, somewhere away from phones, television, and radio. I need the peace and quiet.

It has been ten years but I can remember every moment about that morning. A couple of years later, I went to ground zero. That was one of the most emotional days of my life. I still can't believe the size of the pit that was the base of those buildings. Television and photographs just never gave any perspective. That pit was huge - acres...

I think I'll head up Highway 140 and ride the Brown Mountain trail this year. It's near the Sky Lakes Wilderness area. Beautiful place. Peaceful place.

angela

I'll probably be kayaking, and there's a possibility I won't think about 9/11/01 at all. Leastways I'll not obsess over it.

Well said!

I don't like thinking of my country as a victim. I don't understand those who wallow in it. I'll remember, quietly, quickly, and get back to something positive.

9/11 was a tragedy. What followed was a travesty.

I know which did more damage to the country. What's worse is that some will never get it.

You want to relive the past, beat your chest and believe in the rightness of our subsequent actions, then go to town. I will pray for the families who lost loved ones, and the real heroes who gave their lives trying to save others.

I live in New York. I am NEVER going to forget. My family was effected. People I know were effected.

Enough said.

Well put Dan.

I guess for those of us that live here, it is very hard for us not to continue our "sob fest".. Especially for those of us like myself who were directly involved and also lost friends or family that day. Big difference seeing it up close and personal, than on a tv screen in your living room.

My only real problem with it, is those that attempt to make a profit off of it. All the "commemorative" stuff that is popping up.

The rest of you can go about your unaffected lives....

I agree with "never forget". I'll take a few moments to relive those hours in my mind and then go on with life. I see no need to indulge in sensationalist television programs ultimately designed to profiteer off the event by selling more expensive cialis advertising spots.

I wonder how many here (and elsewhere) take time to remember Pearl Harbor as a point of comparison. I know I do.

Vinman, I'm with you. It was/is personal. Knew too many people lost that day.

I think that is a better tribute to those who lost their lives on 9-11 than all the media hoop-la going on.

I won't forget that day, and I don't need a multi-media show to keep me from forgeting.

On September 11th 10 years ago, it was quite clear to me that the world, my world, will never be the same as it was before. And 10 years ago, I felt that if we could bring the person or group who was responsible for these actions to justice, that things would somewhat return to normal...

...this summer, they finally got Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately, it seems like such a hallow victory now. It won't bring back te people who died that day, and it certainly won't undo the destruction. We won't return to 'normal' - that is long gone... But at least that chapter in the tragedy can be closed.

So - what will I do? Go to church with my wife, do some schoolwork, and watch the Jets season opener. And spend some time quietly reflecting on being grateful for what I have...

-Z-man.

Kill Your TV. Seriously.

I don't think killing OBL was hollow. I think it did considerable damage to the organization which, combined with a decade of effort by our forces and others, has greatly weakened that particular group. Unfortunately, there are other threats, the world is a dangerous place and things don't get wrapped up by the commercial break.

I didn't clarify -- I certainly believe that finding and executing OBL was a victory for the USA and this has struck a solid blow to Al Queda. However, I was referring to the hollow feeling inside me -- yeah, justice has been served, but it still won't bring me back to how things felt before...

-Z-man.

I'm relieved that justice has finally been served. The chapter couldn't be closed as long as the mastermind was walking free.

No, it won't. Innocence has been lost.