How can someone remember something they never forgot? That was the question that immediately popped into my head as I drove down Main Street in my hometown of Wytheville last weekend. Driving along, I tend to read the signs that hang from whatever businesses are within sight, and that day was no different. The sign that really got my noodle cooking on Nov. 2 read: “We will never forget 9-11.”

September 11 was a terrible day that will forever be looked upon when people over the world think of great tragedies. The imagery from that day is burned into every person’s memory. The planes, the towers, the firefighters and policemen, the survivors. Everything is very clear in the mind of even the most callous American. Alan Jackson and Toby Keith have had huge hits with their musical tributes. A slew of DVDs were released to chronicle the event and the aftermath. Magazines did tribute editions, books were written, vigils were held, and tears were shed. Every single inch of space that could display that simple phrase, “Remember Sept. 11,” did just that.

My point? Nobody is ever going to forget. I realize that this may seem like a slightly dated topic, being that it has been over two months since the anniversary of Sept. 11, but that is my point. I propose a one-time movement to be held nationwide in the memory of Sept. 11, a simple way of changing perspective on "Remember Sept. 11" that completely redifines the message; Never forget Sept. 11. You do it once, and you never have to worry about it again. Let the big wigs make their money flogging some other tragedy, but no more DVDs and magazines for this one. Remember the victims, the survivors, and the terrible acts of that day on your own time, in your own way. However you chose to cope and deal is fine, but as a country, we do not need to continue aggravating this wound. After all, how can someone remember something they’ve never been allowed to forget?