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It seems quiet.. and that nobody responded to your post. It was 16 years ago but it was the day that changed EVERYTHING.
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A local classical station was stating it was Patriot's day and playing somewhat somber music like from Saving Private Ryan, something from Aaron Copeland, etc. I had not realized that this was a new name for 9/11.
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Al, I hadn't heard that term in reference to today. Thanks for mentioning it. It'll be interesting to see if it catches on.
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I hope the new name does not catch on. There are too many connotations to that name, especially things like the "Patriot Act."
It would be better, in my estimation, if it were merely left as 9.11, which needs no explanation and carries only the baggage of the individual remembering the events.
It seems that the public and written commemoration is precipitously declining.
As always, I bow my head to the NYFD 343 and mourn the loss of innocents and innocence.
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I agree with David on this. 9/11 says it all.
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Here is a little information about "Patriot day". There is no "S" on patriot. Patriot's Day is a holiday that is observed in some states but Patriot Day is a national holiday. It has been called that since just after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
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A bill to make September 11 a national day of mourning was introduced in the U.S. House on October 25, 2001, by Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) with twenty-two co-sponsors, among them eleven Democrats and eleven Republicans. The bill requested that the President designate September 11 of each year as Patriot Day. Joint Resolution 71 passed the House by a vote of 407–0, with 25 members not voting. The bill passed the Senate unanimously on November 30. President Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18 as Pub.L. 107–89. On September 4, 2002, President Bush used the authority of the resolution to proclaim September 11, 2002, as the first Patriot Day.
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We in Canada remember it well....I know exactly where I was and where my family were My son called...He was safe
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I was trying to be neutral in my first response about "Patriot Day", but I agree with David and others -- I don't think it's a good idea. The losses of 9/11 end up being subsumed by other, broader definitions of who a patriot is.
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I prefer 9 11 too. Taiwan calls their independence day 10-10 day (Oct 10)
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I prefer 9/11 too. I was driving to Atlanta for a convention and continued on to it as I had been planning on going for months. About the scariest thing I ever saw was about 10AM all of the Microsoft personnel at their booth just got up and walked out of the conference not taking any equipment not even very expensive laptops with them or even turning equipment off because of reports on the news that the convention center might be a possible additional target as hysteria gripped the news media. About 15 minutes or so later an announcement came over a public address system that the conference was closing and I left and drove home just playing it over and over in my mind for several hours and listening to the radio in the car.
Heard later from my sister in law that she had been scheduled for a meeting at the towers that day with a potential client but it had been canceled the day before. She and her husband lived across from the United Nations building in a tiny apartment and there were armed guards and snipers stationed there as protection for visiting dignitaries at the UN for some time which made leaving from and going to home quite an exercise. One high school classmate of my wife died in the collapse.
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I appreciate that there's a lot of other breaking, urgent news, but I just wanted to acknowledge that today is September 11th. It's been 16 years.
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It seems quiet.. and that nobody responded to your post. It was 16 years ago but it was the day that changed EVERYTHING.
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A local classical station was stating it was Patriot's day and playing somewhat somber music like from Saving Private Ryan, something from Aaron Copeland, etc. I had not realized that this was a new name for 9/11.
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Al, I hadn't heard that term in reference to today. Thanks for mentioning it. It'll be interesting to see if it catches on.
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I hope the new name does not catch on. There are too many connotations to that name, especially things like the "Patriot Act."
It would be better, in my estimation, if it were merely left as 9.11, which needs no explanation and carries only the baggage of the individual remembering the events.
It seems that the public and written commemoration is precipitously declining.
As always, I bow my head to the NYFD 343 and mourn the loss of innocents and innocence.
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I agree with David on this. 9/11 says it all.
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Here is a little information about "Patriot day". There is no "S" on patriot. Patriot's Day is a holiday that is observed in some states but Patriot Day is a national holiday. It has been called that since just after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001.
From Wikipedia,
A bill to make September 11 a national day of mourning was introduced in the U.S. House on October 25, 2001, by Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) with twenty-two co-sponsors, among them eleven Democrats and eleven Republicans. The bill requested that the President designate September 11 of each year as Patriot Day. Joint Resolution 71 passed the House by a vote of 407–0, with 25 members not voting. The bill passed the Senate unanimously on November 30. President Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18 as Pub.L. 107–89. On September 4, 2002, President Bush used the authority of the resolution to proclaim September 11, 2002, as the first Patriot Day.
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We in Canada remember it well....I know exactly where I was and where my family were My son called...He was safe
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I was trying to be neutral in my first response about "Patriot Day", but I agree with David and others -- I don't think it's a good idea. The losses of 9/11 end up being subsumed by other, broader definitions of who a patriot is.
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I prefer 9 11 too. Taiwan calls their independence day 10-10 day (Oct 10)
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I prefer 9/11 too. I was driving to Atlanta for a convention and continued on to it as I had been planning on going for months. About the scariest thing I ever saw was about 10AM all of the Microsoft personnel at their booth just got up and walked out of the conference not taking any equipment not even very expensive laptops with them or even turning equipment off because of reports on the news that the convention center might be a possible additional target as hysteria gripped the news media. About 15 minutes or so later an announcement came over a public address system that the conference was closing and I left and drove home just playing it over and over in my mind for several hours and listening to the radio in the car.
Heard later from my sister in law that she had been scheduled for a meeting at the towers that day with a potential client but it had been canceled the day before. She and her husband lived across from the United Nations building in a tiny apartment and there were armed guards and snipers stationed there as protection for visiting dignitaries at the UN for some time which made leaving from and going to home quite an exercise. One high school classmate of my wife died in the collapse.
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