I mean it’s been six years since Islamic extremists flew our commercial airliners into buildings, in an attempt to destroy our infrastructure, killing almost 3,000 Americans in the process. Isn’t that enough? Let’s move on, folks. We’ve got more important things to do instead of taking a day once a year to remember the fallen, and to remember that there’s an enemy out there looking to strike again.

Again it comes, for the sixth time now — 2,191 days after that awful morning — falling for the first time on a Tuesday, the same day of the week.

Again there will be the public tributes, the tightly scripted memorial events, the reflex news coverage, the souvenir peddlers.

Is all of it necessary, at the same decibel level — still?

Nah. Let’s take the day and worry about global warming instead.

As the ragged nature of life pushes on, it is natural that the national fixation on an ominous event becomes ruptured and its anniversary starts to wear out. Once-indelible dates no longer even incite curiosity. On Feb. 15, how many turn backward to the sinking of the battleship Maine in 1898?

Few Americans give much thought anymore on Dec. 7 that Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 (the date to live in infamy). Similar subdued attention is paid to other scarring tragedies: the Kennedy assassination (Nov. 22, 1963), Kent State (May 4, 1970), the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995).

Where the hell has the New York Times been? There’s a commemoration for Pearl Harbor every year. The Maine? That was 109 years ago. No one is alive from the time it happened. 9/11 occurred 6 years ago. It’s still fresh in people’s minds, and many children who were children at the time, remain children now. That’s like not commemorating the Oklahoma City bombings, because we don’t hold a moment of silence to remember The Battle of Hastings. Except, see, NYT, we do remember the Oklahoma City bombings every year, covered by all of the major news stations.

Not to downgrade them, but the Kennedy assassination killed, though he was the President, one person directly. The Kent State incident killed four students. 9/11 resulted in the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans, within one morning.

Some people are troubled by what they see as others’ taking advantage of the event. “Six years later, we can see that a lot of people have used 9/11 for some gain,” said Matt Brosseau, 27, of Westfield, N.J. He sees the public tributes as “crassly corporatized and co-opted by false patriots.”

“Me personally, I wouldn’t involve myself in a public commemoration,” he said. “I don’t see the need for an official remembrance from the city or anyone else. In six years, is Minneapolis going to pay for something for the people who died in the bridge collapse?”

Again, I know it was tragic, but the Minneapolis bridge collapse was an accident, resulting in the deaths of 32 people. 9/11 was the deadliest terrorist attack in history.

What might happen on Sept. 11 a hundred years from now? “It’s conceivable that it could be virtually forgotten,” said Dr. Bodnar, the history professor. “Does anyone go out on the streets of New York and commemorate the firing on Fort Sumter?”

The New York Times’ argument is based upon comparing apples and oranges. Their argument is that we should scale back on remembering the worst terrorist attack in history, occurring just 6 years ago, because we don’t commemorate a battle that occurred 146 years ago. Pathetic.