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A moment -- that's all it really takes for most of us to instantly think back to where we were on Sept. 11, 2001. You close your eyes and you can remember the sights, the sounds, the utter horror and dread that filled our hearts and minds.
Still, there's something oddly disorienting about marking the passing of another year since that tragic day. We're at six years now, and yet it still feels like it was just yesterday that the Twin Towers collapsed in a heap of smoke and debris; that fire belched from a gaping wound inside the Pentagon; that a group of ordinary passengers prevented even more tragedy by sacrificing their own lives over a field in Pennsylvania.
A number of folks have deemed the media coverage of this latest 9/11 anniversary woefully inadequate. One woman even sent an email to every single Daily News staffer this morning, expressing hurt that our front page largely focused on all-you-can-eat seats at the Wachovia Center.
I'm not sure what it is, exactly, that the media should do to mark every 9/11 anniversary. Personally, I think it would useful to revisit the unanswered questions of the attack. (Will Bunch has 20 really famous questions of his own.) More news space certainly should be devoted to the troops who are still in Afghanistan -- remember that place? -- and the goals they're trying to achieve over there. Here's another question that hasn't been answered in a while: whatever happend to all of the money that Americans donated to the seemingly endless number of charities that popped up immediately after the attack?
I could go on and on, of course, but I'd much rather hear from you guys. What do you end up thinking of when we mark another 9/11 anniversary?

Comments (2)
First, I think that woman should be added to the editorial board, I agree that the DN's focus on the mundane is a joke/disgrace for a "big city" paper. Maybe she can add some much needed focus. beng a tabloid doesn't have to equate to being a National Enquirer clone.
To your well thought out point, all that you mentioned are legitimate topics for articles that would probe for answers. Follow ups on the survivors families. A story that asks the average Philadelphian if they even thought about it (may tell us more about ourselves than we might like).
What I thought about? I am still pissed that it happened, I want some kind of base instinct revenge against those that planned it, some closure. Raw emotional feeling, not about the stupid decision to invade Iraq, I want some justice for all those that died and the people left behind.
Posted by John Q | September 12, 2007 10:35 AM
Posted on September 12, 2007 10:35
Yes, I remember, and I went home to pack my uniforms and deploy.
It is a shame my Commander in Chief took his eye off the ball with this democracy at the point of a gun in Iraq crap.
Posted by Mark Chalupa | September 18, 2007 9:26 PM
Posted on September 18, 2007 21:26