To the editor:
Today is the 12th memorial since the terror of September 11, 2001. In our town, school children who were not alive on that fateful day attended the town service and displayed their artwork commemorating that day.
I thought back to the 12th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I was 13. Our country was in a different war, Korea. That took the headlines just as Syria does today. We as a nation have been asked to remember the Alamo, remember the Maine, remember Pearl Harbor, remember 9/11. “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this” President Lincoln intoned at the feet of thousands of Americans in the cemetery at Gettysburg. It seems that almost every generation of Americans has been asked to remember.
What have we learned by remembering? Perhaps Willa Cather summed it up most succinctly and ominously, “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before!”
Cape May – Governor Murphy says he doesn't know anything about the drones and doesn't know what they are doing but he does know that they are not dangerous. Does anyone feel better now?
