Doc, you know I'm a fuzzy thinker and just write what I feel, so I'm not exactly sure. I suppose I meant everyone. I know that is an impossible wish, and I'm ok with that. Well, I can understand it. What I am not ok with, and what I don't understand, is when people think it's not ok for *us* (defined as me and others who think like I do :P) to remember and to mourn it in a way we see fit.
To clarify, I'm not happy when anyone forgets, but I can understand it. However, I am not happy with being told that *I* can't remember, or that I am somehow doing the wrong thing or being narrowminded by remembering.
Just... thank you. I'm from LI, and it was incredibly painful to go through livejournals last night and see so many people saying, "I don't care. Am I a bad person?" or trying to make me feel like my grief was selfish or ignorant. Many of them excused this by saying "but I will always remember." Im my opinion most of those people have forgotten it a long time ago.
Anyway. You said it better than I could. Thank you.
This is probably the best anniversary entry I've read this week. You're right, so many of the others hurt, and I can't begin to imagine reading things like that as a New Yorker. *Hugs*
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To clarify, I'm not happy when anyone forgets, but I can understand it. However, I am not happy with being told that *I* can't remember, or that I am somehow doing the wrong thing or being narrowminded by remembering.
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Anyway. You said it better than I could. Thank you.
-- Nausicaa
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I'd understand if you took it down, but I hope you don't. And I hope you don't mind me saving it to my computer.
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~Leigh
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Thank you for posting this, GP. It really did need to be said.
~ami~
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