Anniversaries are important. Very important. But truth be told, I'm 9-11ed out at this point. There's something about the constant barrage of replays and interviews and political posturing that's covered the news for the past several days that's had a numbing effect.
The best tribute to the 9-11 victims would be to get our act together and our heads out of the sand and start doing something serious about making sure it never happens again, anywhere. I've heard a lot of self-congratulations going on about reaching five years without another attack on American soil. Five years is good. Ten years would be excellent. But it's not going to be enough so long as the threat is still out there and we're still pussyfooting around looking for it in many of the wrong places.
Meanwhile, on a related subject I've heard about enough of, Meryl scrapes the shine off the "Path to 9/11" controversy. She's right. About all of it.
