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7 years after

September 12th, 2008 at 04:08 am

At work today.


The first few anniversaries we had a couple of minutes of silence - the minutes turned shorter and shorter. Today no minutes at all.

Its our nature to forget just a little bit. Its really not forgetting, but easing our memories into something more workable. You can't be white hot furious at that historical moment forever - emotion has to turn into determination. And we can't be too hard on the 7 year olds who can't share our memories. I remember my elders being furious at me for not remembering the Kennedy assassination; and they themselves upset their elders for not remembering Pearl Harbor.

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1 Responses to “7 years after”

  1. frugaltexan75 Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am 1221217979
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    It was weird at work yesterday. No one even mentioned the significance of the date. Even last year a number of us sat and talked about where we were when it happened. I thought about saying something, but didn't. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't, except maybe we were all just too busy, and well, the environment of our office is a lot different than it was last year.

    I don't really think it's a matter of having forgotten, maybe it's more a matter of having had to move on, move past it, for those of us not directly affected by it.

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