The Freedom Tower

September 11 is a day we’d like to forget. It is the day we’ll always remember. This is a play on the City Room page of the New York Times. The anniversary of 9/11 is less than a month away. How should we remember something we’d like to forget?
The Times says news reports about public emergencies and ground zero cause the memories to come rushing back.

And then there are the annual ceremonies. The sixth anniversary is less than a month away, and some City Room blog readers are thinking about how the date is commemorated.

A report about the Freedom Tower drew this comment from Dick C.:

I’m getting tired of it all (I’m a New Yorker and know families that have lost relatives during 9/11). Let’s move on in life and build what is essential for the business there. Stop making it an eternal funeral party. I just came back from Banda Aceh in Indonesia (The tsunami drowned 150,000 people there less than three years ago). The people there already continued their life the way it was. So should New York.

And the relocation of the annual ceremony to a nearby park prompted this comment from Wendi:

I understood that in time it would eventually come to pass that our memorials would become more private affairs as years pass and more and more time went by. I just wasn’t ready for that to be this year … so soon. I still need that coming together in community with others who fully understand, who I take comfort from and whose strength makes me believe we will survive. I just think the relocation could’ve waited a little while longer without anyone being “hurt,” especially since work stops during the ceremony.
The newspaper wants to know how much attention should we pay to the anniversary of 9/11 after six years? This is not a rhetorical question. The newspaper is looking for emails from people willing to talk about the appropriate way to commemorate the anniversary.