Category Archives: The War

There’s talk that we should stop commemorating 9/11, almost six years–next Tuesday, in fact– after the event. That all it does is perpetuate the anger. Part of the therapeutic society’s perpetual need to move on, I suppose. Then there’s Dec. 7, an anniversary that is still being commemorated,almost sixty-six years after it happened. Has that perpetuated hatred of the Japanese? Not when you consider all of the Sonys and Toyotas we buy. Had they not been beaten severely, I suppose the Japanese might like to remember it annually, as well. The O man apparently does, if you believe he’s still alive. I still think he died at Tora Bora, or soon after. But even if he is alive, I don’t see us doing him, or his followers, any favors by remembering the day the towers fell. Rather, we do ourselves the favor to go on remembering it, in the hope that it won’t happen again.