Sept. 11 Anniversary

[beandelphiki]

This is stolen from aerindipity who stole it from...well, someone else.

As everyone knows, we are fast approaching the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Everyone is discussing how the best memorialize the event, and the people lost. Here's my two cents.

A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.

So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.

Yeah. I totally agree. Let's do this, people.

Comments

[ex-indistinc653.livejournal.com]

Too bad I work at an internet service provider...

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but when you get home from work....?

[ex-indistinc653.livejournal.com]

I like to do things to the complete, that's why I said that.

[astres.livejournal.com]

*shifts around in her seat* I don't really understand why we would honor a masacure....

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

No, meaning, honor the people who were lost. Their memories. Not the attack itself.

It's like...celebrating Rememberance Day.

[macai.livejournal.com]

Cheers to it! This was what, the second time that America was attacked like this, wasn't it? And Pearl Harbor. So many lives lost... so many innocent lives. Let us honor their loss.