The Wrong Way to Remember...

The Wrong Way to Remember Sept. 11: "Relieving people of work does not necessarily move their thoughts in a desired direction. The talk on Labor Day is of barbecues, not the victories won when workers unite. Few people caught up in Memorial Day traffic bestir themselves to remember the Union's Civil War dead. Vacation days lend themselves less to sentiment than to pragmatism. It seems inevitable that, following the model of the birthdays of our first and 16th presidents, this new holiday would soon fall not on Sept. 11 but on the closest Monday to it."