What is there to say, the day after the 5th anniversary of 9/11/01? Neither of us have really been able to talk much about that day even now and it disgusts us that movies are already being made, etc. With this sense of avoidance, I wasn't sure how to deal with yesterday, especially at school. I decided to talk about it a little bit with my classes and realized that most of them had no or very little idea about what had happened. But, you figure they were 5-8 years old when it happened... So, we talked about it a lot, I explained briefly what happened, they asked a lot of questions. What I thought would be really difficult ended up being really important. We can never forget. They need to learn about it so that they never forget either. It was strangly cathartic to attempt to explain it to the students. Their responses were varied, but interesting.
Amy posted this on her site and reminded us about Jon Stewart's monologue at the beginning of his first show back 9 days after the attacks. Watch it if you're interested and when you have the time (it's about 9 minutes long).
(In case the embedded movie doesn't show up, this should be the link... Daily Show clip )
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We always seem to get to be the ones to comment first :) Thank you for sharing that movie clip. It was moving, and poingant. I can't even remember if we saw it the first time around. And I truly hope that these events will never be forgotten, and all the people who died that day will live on in memories. Let us also not forget that we still have men and women fighting and dying right now in Iraq and Afganistan because of those events. Sadly, the number of servicemembers who have died in Iraq alone has surpassed the number of people killed in the 9/11 attacks. This was a terrible tragedy in our time, and surely is an event that will be remembered.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for sharing, and we love you guys.
-Mike & Jenn