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should 9/11 be a national holiday?

should 9/11 be a national holiday?

  • yes

  • no

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SandEagle

SandEagle

Lifer
i'm all for shutting down schools, banks, government on 9/11 like we do on any other federal holidays. i think a day off would be nice for people to reflect. tell us why you think 9/11 should or should not be a national holiday.
 
It was a sad day, but we should mourn what over-reacting to it has done to our freedom more than the loss of life that day.

The TSA, NSA, RGB, VGA and TLA have harmed America more than Bin Laden did.

And Memorial Day already lets us reflect on the loss of life and waste of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
It is a national holiday, Patriot Day. The govt just doesn't shut down on that day.

Personally I think we should just move Veterans Day from Nov to Sept. Since Sept 11 is the cause of our new generation of Veterans.
 
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IronWing said:
Pearl diving was invented.
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No, pearl diving was invented atleast a few years before that, as documented in John Steinbeck's award winning documentary book "The Pearl" about a family of pearl divers in 1940.

On the date in question, it is noted as a holiday because such a large haul was discovered off the coast of Hawaii (and thusly naming the area "Pearl Harbor") that it propelled our nation into a period of prosperity and manufacturing. There was such a demand for production that there was a labor shortage and women who previously stayed home were encouraged to work.
 
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I voted no because there are only 365 days in a year. But it probably will be one eventually. Didn't read the thread yet, but presumably someone has mentioned that 12/7 is not a holiday.

Edit: thank you Leyawiin.
 
DaveSimmons said:
It was a sad day, but we should mourn what over-reacting to it has done to our freedom more than the loss of life that day.

The TSA, NSA, RGB, VGA and TLA have harmed America more than Bin Laden did.

And Memorial Day already lets us reflect on the loss of life and waste of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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And this.
 
Why would you want to make a holiday glorifying our failure? Hell everything since then related to it has either been a big failure/waste of money or just taking away freedoms. Sounds like a holiday for corps and big government, not we the people.
 
xaeniac said:
Pearl Harbor is not a holiday, so umm... No.
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We moved all our ships out of Pearl Harbor before it happened. We didn't close down the Pentagon and the Twin Towers for fumigating or some other bullshit reason for preemptive damage control. That's why Pearl Harbor never got holiday status.
 
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