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There are just some things I don’t think should be called anniversary’s. To me, that word goes with “Happy” in front of it and there is nothing at all happy about what happened a year ago on the gulf coast.

All of the anniversary shows and articles mostly make me mad all over again. That’s real helpful. If there are any good story’s, I’ll read them. Like about groups rebuilding homes, or finding lost relatives, being happier in Iowa, that’s fine. But rehashing stories about the actual storm and the week after, just serve to depress me.

Right now, there is a movie out with Nicholas Cage about 9-11. I won’t go watch it. If I wanted to feel those feelings again, just let me sit for about 3 minutes, and I’d be crying anyway without going to pay $8.

In 10 years if someone says, hey do you remember where you were on 9-11 and on the week after Katrina? I’d be able to say yes. Unfortunately, I was glued to the tv assimilating more information than is natural. Watching the towers go down live, watching people being rescued off their roofs in real time while mothers clutched their babies and old men who couldn’t walk were gently lifted into helicopters. Yes, I was watching when Matt Lauer and Katie Couric blankly stared at the monitor and said “oh my god, it just collapsed, the building just collapsed.” and not 10 minutes later, said the same of the second building. Yes I was watching as the poor people at the convention center were screaming for help from reporters who had no water, but had a cell phone and a camera that showed the world their pain.

I don’t need any reminders of the emptiness I felt and the sorrow. I can take myself to that place with out the help of the media thank you very much, as I’m sure many people can. This post was for me to rant about not prolonging hurts, and in the process, I’m not feeling so mad. Just sad.

So to me, it’s okay to call it a ‘day of remembrance’ or Katrina week. Just don’t call it anniversary.