Monday, September 11, 2006

Patriot Day

It was inevitable. I knew the moment people started calling 9/11 "Patriot Day", it would happen. The day would come when the murder of 3,000 Americans would become just another excuse to hold a white sale at Penny's or an extended happy hour.

Today at work, I saw a flier advertising a "Patriot Day Picnic". I felt immediately sick at the sight of it. Soon, 9/11 will simply replace Labor Day as the unofficial end of summer. With each passing year and our memory of the events on 9/11/01 fades, the remembrances will become downplayed. How many people even know which wars that Memorial Day and Veterans Day were originally created to commemorate? It's over.

Sure, we could just not question it all. Just happily call it Patriot Day. After all, who could object to celebrating patriotism? Good patriots love their country. Of course, the cynic in me sees this trend as part of the concerted effort to remind us all to be good patriots. And that means to never, ever question the administration.

At least until another Democrat gets into the Oval Office.

We are officially damned.

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