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Tue. Sep 11, 2007

Those Who Still Mourn

9/11/2001. 9/11/2002. 9/11/2003. 9/11/2004. 9/11/2005. 9/11/2006.

Each year we remember those who died that day. This year, some ask How Much Tribute Is Enough? I don’t know that I’m qualified to give an answer to that question, if one even exists.

I do know this. He didn’t die in a terrorist attack, but on March 19, 2012, I will be remembering and mourning my Dad, on the sixth anniversary of his death. It will be just another day to most people, but if it happened to be a part of a national commemoration that some felt on its sixth year was “wearing thin,” I’d invite them to not participate. To treat it just like any other day in their life. But leave alone the feelings of those who still mourn.

There will sadly be many who try and use today as a platform to push their own agenda, pro-this, anti-that, red, blue, etc. Take special note of such people. Remember that on a day for the thousands who still mourn, they could not wait for Sept. 12 to try and sell their wares. They could not simply keep quiet in the face of such “opportunity.”

Today is not about them. And it’s not about me. In fact, thinking about this, and reviewing the links above to what I’ve written on this day in the past, I’ve decided this is the last new posting I will make on September 11, of any year. In the future, on this day this site will have a link to one of the articles of which I’m proudest: “‘I’m OK, I’m with the firemen’: In Memory of Bill Biggart.”

But otherwise, on September 11, this site will be silent. In honor of those who still mourn.