Marking devastation with celebration

This is an interesting and particularly disturbing idea if you ask me.

The Pentagon would hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing today.
"This year the Department of Defence will initiate an America Supports Your Freedom Walk," Rumsfeld said, adding that the march would remind people of "the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation".
The march will start at the Pentagon, where nearly 200 people died on September 11, 2001, and end at the National Mall with a show by country star Clint Black.

The discussion of linking 9/11 with support for the current war is a discussion well over three years old. I'm not going to get into it--we all know where we stand and where our opponents stand and I think not many people are changing sides anytime soon.

More importantly, when did it become fashion to mark anniversaries of tragic events with concerts and freedom marches? What happened to good ole 'moments of silence', solemn vigils, dedication of memorials....the list could go on and on and I feel that NO WHERE on it would be a 'freedom march' and a f*&king country music concert. Think Pearl Harbor, think Oklahoma City.

I'm putting out the call now. Conservative bloggers--you know who you are--you were all outraged over the 'hijacking of Ground Zero' (as was I) for the freedom memorial. We all said "if it isn't about the victims of 9/11, what else could it be about?". We screamed "it doesn't belong here" and that people were using 9/11 to further their own political agendas and called them the 'blame America first' crowd.

September 11th was a tragic day--perhaps one of the most tragic in our history. At no time in the future, certainly not a mere 4 years since that day, is a f&%king concert and freedom march an acceptable marking of that anniversary.