This is too easy

I haven’t received any hate mail in quite a while, so… let’s drum up some. I’m just kidding. I’m not really trolling for hate mail.

This came from a MySpace bulletin, so it’s bound to be easy to pick on because it was probably started by someone too young know any better, but it’s just one example of what drives me nuts on this date now. Luckily the din goes down with each passing year, but I still hear it. Not that what happened six years ago wasn’t a shockingly tragic wake-up call for our country, but I would like to believe that emotion doesn’t always have to win against reason not matter how tragic the event.

NO SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 11!

EVERYBODY, STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL ON SEPTEMBER 11TH… NO MATTER WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO, WHAT STATE YOU LIVE IN, THINK ABOUT IT… TEACHERS SHOW UP AND NOBODY IS IN CLASS… THEN THEY’LL LEAVE… TELL A LOT OF PEOPLE AND LETS SEE IF WE CAN MAKE IT ON NEWS… WHY SEPTEMBER 11TH? CAUSE ITS A DAY WE SHOULD NOT BE IN SCHOOL BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED.. WE GET SCHOOL OFF FOR A BUNCH OF DEAD PRESIDENTS BUT WE DON’T GET SCHOOL OFF FOR A MASS MURDER OF PEOPLE WE PROBABLY KNEW? AND ALL THE AMAZING FIRE FIGHTERS THAT DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY!! … JUST KEEP REPOSTING AND TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW…NO SCHOOL SEPT. 11TH

REPOST THIS AS “NO SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 11”

~~IF WE CAN HAVE AN HOLIDAY FOR A DEAD PRESIDENT,WHY SHOULDN’T WE RESPECT, AND HONOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES FOR US ON SEPT. 11~~

It sounds oh-so-noble on the surface if you ignore the caps lock ignorance, but let’s be reasonable about this. You can’t just start a holiday for every tragic event in history – yes, it’s history. I love history – history can be very moving when you really get into imagining all of those horribly tragic moments from the past, but I am not about to go calling for a holiday for every tragic event involving fatalities.

We’d never get any work done! Work? No, work wasn’t mentioned in that posting because the author probably doesn’t work yet. So, it should be just a school holiday then. But why boycott learning? What is wrong with learning? Clearly more people need to learn about and think of all of the other tragedies that they might want to start a holiday for. Oh wait! I forgot that some schools are actually trying to cut out teaching History because it’s not on any of the standardized tests that directly impact their funding.

Besides, I can’t think of any holidays that specifically commemorate tragic events. Holidays are more for memorializing either events or people that have had a profound impact on our world. We don’t have holidays for every dead president because we would eventually bury ourselves in presidential holidays too.

Again, while this particular posting is good fuel, it’s more than just this example. I really dread this day every year for things like this that I hear, and I’m finally getting around to complaining about it. I know that complaining doesn’t help fix anything or help anyone else get over whatever they’re feeling, but I just needed to get that off my chest. It’s not my job to fix people, so I’m not going to stick my nose into their business unsolicited.

Onward with a song from Fraggle Rock….

Here to There

I’m always here.
I’m never there.
I’m never, ever anywhere.
Excepting here, ’cause here is where I’m in.
But when I go from here to there,
My here comes with me everywhere,
‘Till there is here, and here is where I’ve been.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming…