In Memoriam

Today America and indeed the World remembers the victims of the 9/11 attacks - as indeed we should. No matter where we stand on the policies implemented thereafter, we should all respect the dead and the bereaved without caveat.

I am particularly taken by the simple remembrance symbolised by reading a roll of the dead, something that has happened in New York every year as a memorial of that fateful day.

I would like to call for a similiar ceremony each year to mark the passing of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Remembering the dead is reason enough but just in case you may need more, here's Howard Dean with exactly that:

The truth is that we have ignored the poor for far too long. And until it washed right up on our front doorsteps, we might have continued to ignore the reality that poverty has too many of our fellow Americans in its grip, and we have a shared moral responsibility not to ignore it anymore.

How about it Democrats, Republicans? Lest we forget.