Post-9/11 gratitude is all too fleeting  Columnist Gordon Dillow
reports that six years after 9/11, gratitude is fleeting for the
first responders.  By GORDON DILLOW / Register columnist  For
most of us it was one of those events that we thought would
change us forever, but somehow didn't. In the six years since
the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the shock of it and the
significance of it have slowly faded, elbowed aside by other,
newer concerns and controversies and crises.  But it's different
for the nation's "first responders" - firefighters, cops,
paramedics, the military and others. For them, even six years
later, 9/11 remains a defining moment. Because in the weeks and
days and months after the towers fell and the Pentagon shook and
the plane crashed into a field, the nation saw with clarity how
first responders do what we expect of them - and for a little
while, at least, they were showered with respect and gratitude.
So given all that, it's not surprising that yesterday, Sept. 11,
was chosen as th