Should 9/11 be a National Holiday? There are arguments on both sides. Here are some of the arguments:
We did not make Pearl Harbor a National Holiday: but people - let's ask yourself, how many people actually remember or know the date of Pearl Harbor? How many people remember? For those of you wondering, it is December 7, 1941.
Too close to Labor Day: This is just ridiculous for someone to even argue this, we want 9/11 to be a national holiday so we will never forget, not just to have another day off. I already know plenty of people from my office who were affected that already do take the day off to remember.
How long before people would start asking each other - as they now do for Memorial Day - say, "What're you doing for the Sept. 11 long weekend?" Here is a thought, remembrance day in Canada, November 11, is a national holiday, and growing up there I remember having the moment of silence in school, and wearing the a red poppy on my chest and thought to myself:
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
and the nation remembers. Is this argument saying that Americans are not capable of doing the same?
National Holiday is a celebration i.e. Memorial Day: is to celebrate the war is over: again, like my thoughts above, it this all Americans are capable of?
to be fair: here are some arguments on both sides:
Make 9/11 a national holiday? (click on "Yes" or "No" for link)
Yes
No
and you tell me what you think.
2 comments:
I don't think it should be a national Holiday.
There are many days of the year where a large number of people die.
As much as I feel for people who lost people to 9/11. Many people lose people on other days as well. Like should we make a day for hurricane victims who lost their homes too? Or what about the many people who die from US bombs on a daily basis?
i think the difference is in what it represents to the American public. 9/11 is more than a day of tragedy - where lots of people died i.e. like Katrina. To many americans, it is the American symbol of unity and strength - and at the same time how vunerable we are.
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