"I Will Remember You"

This song for this post seems the most relevant.

For the past maybe 10 anniversaries of the tragic attacks on the twin towers in New York, I have been have been thinking/pondering on something
       --is it really necessary to commemorate.           the event every year?
       --are those who still take specific notice           people who directly lost someone that           day?
I ponder these things because if it were me and it was a day I lost a loved one, I would not want a national reminder that I lost someone I loved.

Now, don't get me wrong, it was an awful day and I remember exactly where I was when that second plane hit and I will NEVER forget that moment--how I felt, what I thought, etc. It will always be with me. But I do not find it necessary to yearly express my sorrow because while it was a terrible day for our country, it was an exponentially worse day for hundreds of thousands of other people. I find it much more inconsiderate to "always remember, never forget" than it is to let the families who lost people to grieve in peace.

Again, do not get me wrong--terrible day it was on 9/11/01. But in reality the large majority of the country lost nothing except maybe a temporary loss of peace of mind.
Sure, always remember the tragedy, but maybe it's time to stop commemorating.

*To the families of military men and women who lost people from the resulting war--I'm sorry for your loss and I'm grateful for their protection.