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You are lucky beyond imagination to be a citizen of this country. LUCKY.
Not as lucky as you are. That's for damn sure.
What have you done to show your appreciation except for arguing with patriots like myself? And I mean something more substantial than your Cub Scout stint.
Eventually all national traumas fade from the collective memory. Those who were children too young to perceive the horror are now entering adulthood with a somewhat vague understanding of what happened, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
9/11 commemorations have become more and more low key than ever.
No longer is that sense of unity and patriotism present. There was an article a few days ago discussing that this was one of the first generations of military recruits that have no recollection of 9/11.
I'm afraid if you asked random people on the street what happened on 9/11, many would be clueless. I think more people would know that Pearl Harbor attack happened on December 7 than the WTC attacks.
Such is the internet short attention span society we live in
We will never forget who caused 9/11 and the lives lost on and after 9/12 that were all related to 9/11!
Many first responders got very sick due to their heroic and brave work on 9/11, and died later!
Freedom has and will never be the same as prior to 9/11!
Seems to me we've already forgotten - and some time ago. When we embrace Saudi Arabia - we've forgotten or we're dealing with an incredible amount of hypocrisy.
Eventually all national traumas fade from the collective memory. Those who were children too young to perceive the horror are now entering adulthood with a somewhat vague understanding of what happened, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
The bad-thing is that younger people have no recollection of an American before the Department of Homeland Security. They have no recollection of an America where anybody who passes through an airport metal-detector can continue to the gate, greeting his/her relative as they disembark from the plane. They have no recollection of an America before a “Patriot Act”, or where the threat of internet monitoring was only an extrapolation of Orwell’s 1984.
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Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy
...No longer is that sense of unity and patriotism present. ...I'm afraid if you asked random people on the street what happened on 9/11, many would be clueless. I think more people would know that Pearl Harbor attack happened on December 7 than the WTC attacks.
Such is the internet short attention span society we live in
The “unity and patriotism” may have dissipated, but that doesn’t imply that awareness of history is gone. It merely means that emotional intensity is now less intense, as it should be, given the passage of time and the accumulation of experiences that obviate mere slogans like “patriotism”. With what emotional intensity do we remember, for example, the signing of the armistice ending WW1? And yet the historical significance hasn’t been lost.
The average man-on-the-street remembers essentially nothing. It’s easy to find photogenic idiots to place in a late-night comedy sketch about the parlous decline of American awareness of history, geography, etc. But that doesn’t mean that the nation forgets. Neither is it the same to remember, and to hold in veneration the emotional upswell that was prevalent back then.
Seems to me we've already forgotten - and some time ago. When we embrace Saudi Arabia - we've forgotten or we're dealing with an incredible amount of hypocrisy.
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