Which Patriot Day is more worthy of being an official holiday?
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  Which Patriot Day is more worthy of being an official holiday?
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Question: Patriot Day
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Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord
 
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Anniversary of terrorist attacks in NY, DC, and Pennsylvania
 
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Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook
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« on: September 10, 2014, 08:12:36 PM »

I know the former is called Patriot's Day, but the name is similar enough for this poll.
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« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2014, 08:59:40 PM »

I always felt Patriot Day was a horrible and totally inappropriate name for September 11th.

(1) It implicitly suggests that there are certain days it's more important to love/be proud of your country than others.

(2) Of all the days you would be more proud than usual of your country, the day its first foreign attack since Pearl Harbor happened at the hands of a bunch of smelly men in pajamas from one of the most @$$-backwards countries in the wold is probably not a good candidate. "How the #$%@ did we manage to let this happen?!" is a more appropriate reaction.

(3) It plays into the unfortunate ethos that followed and had an outsized role in defining the 2000s - the general "Ah love 'Murica an' muh freedoms! If you don't support invadin' the Iraq, you hate 'Murica!" attitude that incites people to buy Hummer H2s, slap 'Support Our Troops' and 'W '04' stickers all over them, and tote their velour tracksuit-clad daughters and collar-popping sons home from school to their heavily-leveraged tract house while blaring Lee Greenwood and Toby Keith songs.

(4) The overwhelming majority of Americans did zero deeds that could qualify as patriotic in the days, months and years following 9/11. Most Americans heeded our president's advice to go shopping. Most Americans unnecessarily bought cars that used too much of the oil that we had to buy from countries that don't like us. Most Americans made the lowest common denominator even lower for public discourse, if they were ever paying attention to begin with.

I tend to think a national holiday honoring firefighters would have been a far more appropriate way to fill up a previously empty space on the calendar. But no one asked me.
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« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2014, 10:27:56 PM »

9/11 should be a day of rememberence, but Patriots Day isn't the right name for it.
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« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2014, 10:47:48 PM »

Neither is particularly worthy.  One celebrates a group of terrorists who sought to upend society by the use of violence and intimidation and the other commemorates the simultaneous hijacking of four planes for nefarious purposes.
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2014, 01:11:57 AM »
« Edited: September 11, 2014, 01:13:38 AM by ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ »

September 11th should be known as "Bush ignored repeated warnings about terrorism, and then got a 91% approval rating" day. I'm proud to say I always disapproved of Bush, although I can't say the same of Guiliani.
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2014, 05:19:46 AM »

Yeah, 9/11 shouldn't be called Patriot Day. I like Remembrance Day a lot better. It just seems so inappropriate to call it Patriot Day. I know it's supposed to be a day that we all feel like a unified nation and whatnot, but it's not for a reason that we should feel proud of having to be patriotic. (I'm completely skipping over my anti-nationalist rhetoric for this, just because hey...not today, y'know?) Patriotism is supposed to coincide with pride in country, not grief at the magnitude of 9/11.
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2014, 01:05:29 PM »

Option one is the better choice for me, but can anyone who voted the second state their logic?
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