This September 11th thing (I hate the whole 9/11 abbreviation, don't know why, it's just icky). It puzzles me that people still get all upset about it--it was a terrible thing that happened--of course!--but for the vast majority of people, it was not a terrible thing that happened to them. So I don't get why it's everyone's personal tragedy, why people who live on the opposite coast and have no connection to anyone even remotely involved still claim to tear up when they see photos of, for instance, the "falling man." I just don't get that reaction.
I do get that it was an attack not just on a building full of people, that it was an attack on this country. But why people should make the logical leap from "an attack on my country" to "an attack on me" is utterly baffling. It seems so attention-whory, these people making it all about them. It really wasn't. It might have had something to do with Bush, or even with Clinton, or with foreign policy, but most of the people who brag about how upset they were and are on September 11th are not Bush, not Clinton, and had nothing to do with the forumlation of U.S. foreign policy. So why do these people feel personally attacked? They weren't.
And the "Never forget" campaign--oh, please. Like there's any danger of that.
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Reuben
3/16/2006 at 8:19 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The attacks disrupted world trade and airline traffic. They continue to disrupt airline traffic, as massive lines and ridiculous searches persist. They caused significant withdrawal of economic investment and higher insurance concerns due to acts of terrorism. They raise the concern of each person who goes to a stadium that it might be blown up.