On the ninth anniversary of 9/11, have we truly begun to heal?

In order to heal, one has to WANT to heal. Clinging to tragedy and placing it on a pedestal is absolutely not conducive to healing but empowers victimhood - the kind that uses itself for the manipulation of others. Londoners who suffered infinitely more during the Blitz (and had far more deaths and destruction) did not at all cling to those years, they did not pose themselves as victims, so they healed very fast indeed.

Let it die

I think we already have healed we just haven t noticed. We are so consumed with negative emotions because of 8 years under a fear based administration that used 9/11 to gain support for their own agenda. Also, I think we should have started to rebuild the towers about 5 years ago it could have sent the correct message to the world and our citizens "You can take our lives, but you will never take our spirit, so you will never prevail"

dick cheney was behind everything... we cant heal until we have a hanging!

I think we have begun to heal, but we lost the momentum of pride in our United States that was everywhere after 9/11. For a few weeks, we set aside differences and stood, as we should as one nation, one people, united. I felt that maybe the entire political BS would simmer down and we could move forward and work together, and find solutions and compromise for us all. I was wrong.
I really miss the American Flags flying proud on people’s trucks and cars, on homes and businesses. That loss honestly makes me feel like crying.

For the past 5 years, 9/11 has gone by without much of a stint.

This year it's out of control.

The difference is that this year the right-wing spin machine has worked full time to draw up fear and hatred as part of election year bullshit.

America has pretty much healed from 9/11. We're not scared of terrorists and we don't want to invade any more countries.

What we're seeing is the deeper rooted problem of Americans being ignorant, reactionary morons. That's a wound that's been openly flowing since the late 1970's, and so far there is no sign of healing.

Not really.

The victims and their friends and families were the one's who truly suffered. I don't think it's fair or justified to say America suffered as nation- aside from our newfound intolerance towards Islam. That doesn't look like it's going to heal anytime soon.

Healed ??? Mostly,.... Yep.
-And we have put the "scar tissue" behind us,.... awaiting "new growth"
[ which MAY never really occur however; NYC plainly being somewhat puny in the department of architectural development -they may NEVER get the ol' FREEDOM TOWER built" ]
but we -HAVE - JUST BEGUN- to exercise our arms and deploy our global muscle. The rehab is not going to end soon.

p.s. Don't -Vd me for the "endorsement",...its NOT,... necessarily ,...just an observation.

Fuck no! So long as ignorance and arrogance remain the cornerstones of United States foreign policy as well as the American political conscience, we should expect more 9/11 style terrorist attacks.

Is the word heal, or is it just that it fades from our consciousness? Are we "healed" from Pearl Harbor? Do those scars ever really heal? I would say as long as there are wars being fought because of it, no, we have not begun to heal.

People don't get that the main goal of terrorism is terror.
They wanted to upset the way we live, and the way we think- and the terrorists won.

We have Glen Beck and Sarah Palin feeding the flames of fear for millions of people, making the terror more terrifying every day.

Something as insignificant as a Community Center becomes an international issue. All over the country Mosques are being protested. One moron plans to burn Korans, and at least two others are planning to do it as well.

We can't heal if those people keep opening the wound.

we will only begin the healing if we let them build the Islamic community center...

most people don't care. the ones who do are trying to take advantage of it. the only ones who are mourning are the friends and families of those dead

No, check back next year or when they actually build something there.

I never really was "wounded", as I was 7 at the time of the attacks and never started giving a shit. I feel bad that people died, but I don't understand how people are still so melodramatic about it.

how can one begin to "heal" when we are still being lied to by our government....?

if people havent begun to heal they have either forgotten completely or still just being prejudice and not trying to progress beyond the tragedy. Although it is history it is a learning experience than USA doesnt control as much as we think we control...(if we really do "control" what we think we do). so...basically no on e that remembers and mourns it has healed. But to mend the wounds i would suggest not mourning and creating controversy but ameliorating how aggresssive USA is in demanding that other countries follow us or do as we do.