Wife's birthday.
What bothers me is even college kids do not understand why this day was important. Most were not born during 9-11. However not an excuse not to know about our history. I have never quite understood why we went into Japan and built them back up after what they did to our troops consistently in the pacific, the horrific treatment.
I get what your saying and I agree but if you never lived through an event then it's not quite as relevant to you. As an example most in this generation never experienced anything like 911 but after they did they could appreciate the sacrifices made in Vietnam, Korea, and WW1&2. Sometimes you have to witness life in all it's glory and horror to truly understand how it relates to you..
I'll admit when I woke up yesterday it was just another day but while doing some paperwork in the morning and looking for the date I immediately remembered the significance.
My mother told me that my father spent 4 years in France fighting the Nazi's and trying to save the life of the wounded. After Hitler was gone, and others got to go home, he was ordered to the Pacific to continue to fight the Japanese. Only because his commander felt he had done his part, gone 4 years from his family, he needed to return. Of course that was in 1945, not too far from Little Boy.
I suppose had he gone, the chance that my mom would have been a widow, with eldery parents and a young son, and I wouldn't be writing this today. As a kid, Every such commemeration, We always put out the US flag, flying on the bracket in front of the house. So did most of the neighbors.
Today, on my street I am the only one with the colors displayed. I also have a blue porch light for the two murdered police officers we had in Des Moines and for support. It wasn't always that way,but it is now.
You can drive for miles around here and only a few with the Colors, it seems that the parents have forgot, and passes that tradition on to their children. Maybe instead of thinking that schools should be teaching these things, we should be teaching them to our grandkids, kids, and the neighbors kid as well.