Hey 3.5 readers.
Every year, I feel a need to make a post though honestly, I never know what to say.
The only thing I’d say this year is since 15 years have passed, I think it is getting easier for people to forget and become complacent.
I don’t think this day should ever be made a holiday. It’s not a day to have a cookout and celebrate or anything. And I worry we might be headed that way when I see a mattress store commercial with towers of mattresses getting knocked over or a Wal-Mart stacking cases of Coke in the shape of towers.
Anyway, my 3.5 cents.
Bookshelf Battle 
Pain fades with distance. I think the only way to make sure it doesn’t become another faux holiday is to make sure we talk to our kids about the realities of the world. We took the kiddo to the towers last time we were in NY. Talked about what happened and why it happened.
I have a feeling in 50 years they might make it a holiday or something.
Worse would be to just forget. Not much is made of Pearl Harbor Day.
True and assuming the world is in a good place 50 years from now (big assumption) probably much won’t be made of it other than the brief mention that Pearl Harbor gets. But what Pearl Harbor started ended with US victory in WWII whereas the war on terrorism seems as though it will never have an end.
At any rate, I just don’t want to see like 9/11 commercials for sales and stuff like that, just as I wouldn’t want a store to have a “Come on Down for our Pearl Harbor Day Sale!”
Well said.
The commercials were disturbing, but at least they were pulled as was the Walmart display. What bothers me more is politicians using it for their own benefit.
The commercials just struck me as a sign that so much time has passed that people just think of it as any other “holiday” to use to sell coke or mattresses or what have you. I can’t believe it has been 15 years. It goes in the blink of an eye.
Somehow I thought I’d be doing better than owning a blog with 3.5 readers. At least I have 3.5 though. Also, I didn’t know what a blog was then.
It’s only about 2.8 readers after taxes.