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What I want to know is this: why are other countries who have gone through tragedies not represented with their tattered flags at the Olympics? The Olympics are supposed to unify countries with good-natured competition. Instead, we went against the will of the other countries involved and paraded our "enduring patriotism despite our suffering" for the whole world to see. I'm sorry, but 9/11 hardly compares to the struggles most other countries have had to endure on a day-to-day basis. But their pain is ignored, while our tragedy is paraded in front of them. They asked us not to do it, we did it anyway, and I think it was arrogant of us.
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