Yes, the events of 9-11 were a terrible thing, but this whole “Never Forget” thing is just flat out wrong. We’ve had about enough of people exploiting the victims of 9-11 for superficial things such as where a crane is and isn’t allowed to be, where a mosque can be built so that peaceful people can worship God in their own way, justification of beating or killing Muslim people (or people thought to be Muslim people), Quran burnings, and just about any and all other things that ignorant people evoke “Never Forget” on a bumper sticker or what have you.
We can’t speak for all of the other victims, but we sure would like to forget the events of that day. We wish that they never happened. That they never shocked our brains and ingrained the events of that day so deeply and vividly into our memory. We wish that adults would finally stop asking us for directions on how to get the World Trade Center (though they don’t call it the WTC, they call it Ground Zero) to look at a construction site, and for children to stop being taught this ignorance by their parents — kids nowadays call it Groun Zero (G-R-O-U-N Zero).
What we’re really trying to say here more than anything is that every last person on the face of the earth will die one day. Death is a part of life. All death is tragic, but for the love of God, let it go already, and let the poor souls who perished on 9-11 finally rest in peace — for they have been turning over in their graves (both literal and theoretical) so much that they’ve spun halfway to China by now.
With that in mind, we’re very happy to see that some people in Brooklyn have the balls to simple move on with life and have a yard sale on September 11th this year — something that would have been looked at with shock, disgust, and anger just a few years ago.
Nothing says good old fashioned Americana better than being able to buy your neighbor’s unwanted beer steins, recliner, photographs, books and clothing.
And Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri (and those Americans who fought to free al-Zawahiri from a life sentence in Egypt), if you’re reading this, you ruined the sight of a perfectly good, crisp, blue sky that doesn’t have a cloud in it — for many people. For that, this is all we have to say to you guys:
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