September 11

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There's a movement to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack by giving them each a memorial blog on 9/11/2006 (with centralized links at the site above)

Now, I'm generally not impressed with the way our society attempts to make a hero of every person who dies, but I've decided to offer my blog for a memorial anyway, and I'll tell you why. Every person who died that day left someone behind. The victim may have been a criminal, a cheat, a liar, a jerk, a bitch...but to the people they left behind, they were someone important and special. For that reason, they deserve to be remembered. They weren't all heroes, they weren't all valiant and brave, but they were all people with all of the many facets of life that entails. For that, they deserve to be remembered.

It's also important that we as a society are reminded that we're not untouchable and we're not perfect. We have a bad habit of seeing ourselves as a guiding hand for the rest of the world, standing above them, but we're not, and nothing proves that more than the events of September 11, 2001.