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Letter: Histrionics detract from memory of 9/11

Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006 | 7:24 a.m.

Enough is enough! Must we commemorate every 9/11 anniversary with an interminable media circus of mini-series, photo galleries, editorials, platitudes and never-ending parade of, "Where were you when the planes hit?" anecdotes?

Why not take a couple of pages from the Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the millions of victims of the Holocaust, the thousands of victims of World War II who every year manage to commemorate quietly their own horrific experiences. The repetition of the axiom, "Our lives will never be the same," is but self-centered and plays into the agenda of the politicians and media to sell themselves to the unsuspecting public.

Instead, why not consider what life must be like for the average Iraqi these days. It's time we got some perspective.

Joe Beltran, North Las Vegas

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