Christopher Hitchens isn't a fan of making September 11 a national holiday:
I don't care that I am no longer able - because of the supposed "sensitivities" of people who were only involved at random - to watch the graphic pictures of what really happened. I have those pictures in my head, and can see them at any time. I think about the images of New York, and of my hometown of Washington, and most especially of United Airlines Flight 93 and of Shanksville, Pa., every day. I denounce the depraved ideology that organized the murders and that organizes similar murders in Iraq and Spain and Turkey and Egypt, and I carry a knife in my heart for the degenerated fanatics who carry out such deeds. This is not a matter of sentiment or commemoration: Memorials and holidays are for when the war is over - in the sense of being won. In the meantime, who needs yet another day off from school? Better to have the children taught what is at stake, if we can find enough teachers to do it.