Comments on: Patriot Day? Really?

By: verso

verso — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:41:46 +0000

I agree, Brian. It isn’t that we shouldn’t mark the passing, nor that it shouldn’t have a name besides “nine eleven.” I just think lately that word is so charged it shouldn’t be an option. I find that frustrating.

By: Kristine Laird-Abplanalp

Kristine Laird-Abplanalp — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:59:50 +0000

I think “Patriots Day” is a stupid name for it as well. I think the day should be marked (as Pearl Harbor is by flags at half staff)

However we do have to come up with a name for it. 9/11 day sounds redundant. Perhaps a National Day of Remembrance. Or something like that. You can remember 9/11 or Grandpa Joe. Your choice. With a moment of silence to pray, sleep count the specks on the ceiling or write a letter to dear Grandpa Joe. Your choice.

More to the point of the post, sadly being patriotic is now somehow a political statement. Being a patriot spans the aisle and should encompass everyone who loves their country.

By: Brian Enigma

Brian Enigma — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:55:15 +0000

Oh no! You’re against patriots? You must be one o’ them terra’ists!

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I hear you on the whole “Patriots’ Day” thing. To me, it feels like a manufactured Hallmark holiday. Any possible earnestness about the day itself feels cheapened because of that.