People are making a big deal about how September 11, 2001 was five years ago today. I don't mean to suggest that we shouldn't be making a big deal about it; it's just that everywhere you turn you see "We will never forget" and the like.
Let me assure you, regardless of any two-bit poster scrawled in kindergarten marker, WE WILL NEVER FORGET. It won't be hard. There is not a soul alive above ten years old who could possibly ever forget September 11. I can tell you exactly where I was, how I found out, what I was wearing, who called the house later that day, and even what my mother was wearing. Short of what we had for dinner that night, there is no part of that day that I have forgotten. An event like this... unprecedented. Folks who were alive when JFK was shot and when Pearl Harbor was hit at least have something in a similar realm for comparison, but not we GenXers, or Millennials, or whatever title they have chosen to give us.
We will never, ever forget. We may have seen nearly identical shots countless times in movies, or read of planes being hijacked, or people being brave, and rescuing other people at the cost of their own lives... but we will never forget the day that all became real. We may be a generation plagued by reality TV, but we clearly discern the difference between Big Brother and Osama Bin Laden.
No, remembering will not be hard.
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