journal #9

9. Given the authority to establish a holiday, what would you choose to commemorate? Why? What would the celebration look like?


Well this is a holiday that many would also like to establish but i think that 9/11 should be a holiday. This holiday would obvisouly be on september 11 to honor those died on this wicked day. A minute of silence should be given as the time the second tower collapsed. A speech should be given at ground zero to honor the families that lost their loved ones. School would be suspended for the day and all stores would be closed to honor the tragic event. However is it possible that anti-arab feeling arise because some people are subject to generalizations and fail to uderstand that the criminal group Al-queda was responsible. This should be talked about in the speech that this holiday is to strictly remeber the dead and what happened not who caused this event or who we should blame. This holiday should not be a celebreation but more a day to mourne. At night residents of New York will gather at ground zero with candles and honor the dead. However prayers will not be said due to the recent dilema about the cross at ground zero.