Tomorrow is eleven years. I hear there is a disappointment about the museum opening. Something about money. Some of the families are saying there is not much information in the museum either. I won't know.
Personally, I think the museum should be open on weekends only to begin with. I am confident there will be school trips that will be requested during the week as a trip into history. And appropriately so. Eleven years is half a generation. An eleven year old born on September 12, 2001 would have no sincere experience with the tragedy in our country on that date.
We celebrate Pearl Harbor. This is the only attack on civilians in USA history from abroad. There was the civil war which involved many civilians and their livelihoods. The civil war is a different paradigm.
The only thing I worry about is the impact on the future generations and the skepticism the events of that may leave behind in an adverse way. See, Pearl Harbor was a military attack. Eleven years ago, it involved civilians. I worry about the future and the footprint such an act will leave on foreign policy and the USA propensity for war. That is probably an unnecessary worry.
