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| 2009-09-11 |
| Jim Geraghty, National Review ...The Post has a story about children who were born after 9/11, who now learn about the events in school. It’s rather unbelievable to think there are little moppets walking around, who don’t have any memories of that day, who didn’t find themselves stunned, horrified, angry, who don't find those three numbers trigger a wave of memories almost every time. I’m a dad now — two years and two days ago today — and I felt great relief upon learning that the second week of September would mark more than 9/11; I have a happy memory, and a celebration with a happy boy, for the rest of my life. He isn’t aware of the date’s significance, yet, obviously, and I dread that day. Innocence is so rare and so precious that you want to put it in a museum under secure glass. And the day that he asks, where do you begin? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 "I'm sure they, too, wanted to join those men." It's human nature to do whatever it takes to protect ourselves. Unfortunately that instinct is often driven out of us by others (and I won't get into who). |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-09-11 15:46 |
| #2 --- Oh, and just about every parent of the kids I knew growing up had similar stories to tell. When we were 8 or 9, we played at being 'suicide pilots' This would have been about 1956. At school we played 'duck and cover' during drills, to protect us against nuclear attacks that fortunately never happened. --- Last Christmas I told a 5-yr-old grandnephew a little bit about our uncle at Pearl Harbor. Immediately he made up a game for the two of us to play where he was an American soldier dodging Japanese bombs & bullets during the attack while I threw beanbags at him. He made up the game spontaneously, I just played along. (His mother doesn't allow him to play with toy weapons.) I feel sure that boys his age were all enthused when Leonidas and his 300 marched off to their destiny at Thermopylae. I'm sure they, too, wanted to join those men. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-11 13:41 |
| #1 Innocence is so rare and so precious that you want to put it in a museum under secure glass. And the day that he asks, where do you begin? The best parents can hope for is that their children can mature enough before they too have to face the downside of life. E.g, very early in life I learned my uncle saw headless men running during the Japanese attack on Wheeler Field and that my father had nightmares for years after he returned from overseas. My mother was the one who carefully broke that kind of news to me. My father never talked about it. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-11 13:25 |