Join With Me To Create Unification Day
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Good Decisions, History, IdeasI don’t know where you were on September 11th. I was driving to my then job and listening to the radio. I was a little late, so I heard the emcees announce when the second plane hit the building.
At work, I found the entire agency staring at the TV in the conference room. All were dumbfounded. There weren’t enough seats to go around, so most stood for the two or three hours it took to sink in.
Slowly, people went back to their desks and tried to get some work done. I had a project due that day for Bollé sunglasses, and while I’m sure nobody would have been upset if I hadn’t finished it, I did it anyway. Possibly a bit too deadline oriented?
In between writing those lines of copy about some BS “performance polarization”, I tried to get in contact with my friend Kasey. She lives in Brooklyn, just a mile across the bay from Manhattan. After a couple hours I finally reached her. She was talking to me from the roof of her building. She saw the second plane hit. Saw the towers collapse. Witnessed it all firsthand.
Right then I knew that 9/11 would be this generation’s Pearl Harbor, with citizens in the crosshairs.
That’s why when I ran across this online petition to create a Unification Day, I had to share it.
From the petition.
To: The President & Congress of the United States of America
This petition is addressed to the Congress and President of the United States of America.The citizens of the United States of America, in the aftermath of the tragedy of September 11, 2001, hereby request that a national holiday to be named “Unification Day� be set aside as a national day of honor and remembrance for the victims, families, heroes and every life that was touched by the terrorist attacks upon our nation.
While many other national holidays have been instituted to honor and remember the scores of souls who have perished to keep our nation “the land of the free,� never before have so many lives of different races and creeds been suddenly lost upon American soil.
Because of our nation’s “New Warâ€Â? upon terrorism, we the citizens of the United States of America, by our signatures below, implore that the leaders of this great nation, will set aside September 11th as a national holiday to be observed annually by all Americans and the generations of Americans yet to come, known as “Unification Day,â€Â? when not only our nation, but nation’s around the world, joined together by pledging their support to eliminate terrorism on a global scale.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Mine was the 208,435th signature on the list.
Please add yours today.
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