Do you pause on December 7th to remember Pearl Harbor Day? I don’t. And that’s my ambition for 9/11, too. I feel like everytime we memorialize the day, the terrorists win all over again. It was an attack on my city and my people. My neighbors died. My co-workers’ kin died. I still take those attacks very personally. But I want the day back. You can’t wash all of Bush and Guiliani’s ball-sweat off the day. They humped it for so long that it became a Republican political slogan. I’m done with it. And the last thing I want is to turn it into some permanent national day of service. Screw that. Put the flags at half-mast. Let people gather at the crash sites. And move the hell on.
