YES, MUCH BETTER IDEA

LOST'S youngest sister, wise beyond her years in many ways, is one of those LOST sibs who approaches politics and social issues more or less the way LOST does. She shared the following, and though the author is unknown at this point, this is simply too powerful not to share. Thanks, Boon-eetz!!

President Bush, acting upon a joint resolution of Congress, has declared September 11 to be Patriot Day. According to his proclamation, we're supposed to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities... and to display the flag at half-staff from our homes and observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT; this in honor of the Americans who died in the terrorist attack.
 
Here's another idea.
 
Let's declare September 11 International "E nough" Day.
 
Enough flag-waving, enough violence, enough nationalism.  Enough already!  
 
September 11 was not an American tragedy, it was a human tragedy.  It was a tragedy not just for the people in the US who died, but for every innocent person killed as a result of the US reaction to the attacks as well. It was a tragedy for the human spirit, regardless of nationality, religion, and anything else.
 
On September 11, let's say "Enough". No more killing.
       
Let's remember not only the victims of the hijacked airplanes in the US , but of the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
 
Let's remember all the Israelis killed by Palestinian bombers and all the
Palestinians killed by Israeli troops. Let's remember all the innocent people slain by
Union Carbide in Bhopal , India in 1984. Let's take the day to contemplate the
people who've been victims of genocidal warfare in Africa and Cambodia , and the
ones who've starved to death because of political games as well.
 
Let's not forget those who were slain in the Mai Lai Massacre. Instead of waving the flag
of one nation and thinking only about our own dead, let's make September 11 a day to
remember all the people who've died at the hands of someone else's political agenda
through no fault of their own, and let's say "Enough".
 
We should stand up and disavow this, no matter what country we're in, no matter what
religion we are, no matter our political affiliation or status or race or anything else.
 
If we had a moment of silence marking the time of every atrocity ever committed in the
name of nationalism, religion ... every atrocity committed in the name of the artificial
borders that try to make us forget that we're all human, all in this together, all fragile
creatures whose lives can be snuffed out in an instant through no fault of our own ...
then we would never speak again.
 
So we here in America should, I believe, observe September 11 as the day when the
nightmares that humans around the world have been living with for decades came
lumbering ashore on the East Coast of the US . We should see it for what it is;
the day the US truly experienced the horror that rings like a bell around the globe,
from South America to the Middle East to Micronesia , the day we joined the human
race at a most profound and fundamental level.
 
There should be no Patriot Day, no day to further emphasize that we're different.
Instead, let's say, "Enough".
 
Enough of putting the interests of any one nation above the interests of the human race.
 
Enough dwelling on our small differences.
 
Enough killing each other over them. Enough hate, enough fear, enough hunger, enough violence,
enough bombing, enough enough enough ENOUGH!
 
On September 11, do whatever you do, and do it to say ENOUGH.

LOST would add only that we not forget about those who've died in Ireland, in Chad, Nigeria, Sudan, Biafra, Bangladesh, and throughout Africa and Asia. Let's not forget the victims of senseless gun violence from the famous to the obscure and all in between. Lets not forget those who died from illnesses which could have been treated and cured, but for human greed and "unavailability" of care. Enough, indeed!