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Originally Posted by Failed
I don't like seeing the added coverage either. What person would want to relive this horrible day over again?
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"Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Unfortunately, society has a very short memory when it comes to tragic events. A year goes by and it's just a faint memory, we are still upset about it because we've become conditioned to be upset, but we (and I use we as a generalization of society as a whole) aren't really sure why.
Reminders like this are good, however morbid.
I'm young enough and was far enough removed from what happened in New York not to really have had a major psychological impact from it. Even being in Arizona though, I along with my family felt the effects of it. My father ran a travel/vacations company (a subsidiary of a MAJOR airline) that was incredibly profitable pre-9/11, and not too long post-9/11 they closed their doors and my family moved out of state as my dad took another job.
A lot of people over dramatize their reaction about what happened, but I think we all felt it in some sense of the word. Some lost family, friends, co-workers. Others lost their homes. People lost their jobs. It being ten years or ten days or ten decades after the fact shouldn't matter. What should matter is that we remember that day not for what it was, but for what it should teach us as a nation. We are so comfortable and removed from the hatred and violence elsewhere in the world, and were reminded that it can be delivered right to our doorstep.
Frankly we're all lucky (not that it happened, but in general). That was the first significant attack on US soil since 1941. And there hasn't been a war fought primarily on US soil since the civil war. People in many other countries have been fighting wars for hundreds of years. It's all they know.
I'm not one to say that we should be sensitive and all hippy-like going around hugging everybody, but a little understanding goes a long way in bettering ourselves.