>>13740395I see it like this: I was a kid when it happened, in proximity of one of the terror targets no less. The events are tragic, and I'm not saying lots of people weren't effected. But the government and the media make it out to be some world-shattering catastrophe that claimed the lives of millions of people around the world, when really, the event only killed about 2,600 people, which in the grand scheme of things for a large country like the US isn’t a humongous number.
To add to this we’re Americans. Not only are we extremely self-absorbed with our ignorance, fueled by the biased media, we’re hardly sympathetic for our past victims. Our ancestors caused mass genocide to the natives when we arrived and during our "manifest destiny" years, we killed almost 150,000 people in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and we’ve pointlessly murdered hundreds if not thousands of innocent people in the Middle East.
I get that a lot of people died, and I should be respecting them. But while we honor the dead, we shouldn't have these 2-hour nation wide TV specials reading the names of all these people who died 12 years after the disaster. You don’t see Japan having these unusual specials reading off the names of people who died in the bombings. Yes, the bombings qualify as a terrorism.
Terrorist attacks occur in other countries practically every week- not on the same scale, given, but they happen. Just because this one happened in the US doesn’t make it any different. It would be one thing if it was 5 years after the fact, even 10. But 12? We killed Osama. Al Qaeda is losing horribly. We got our vengeance. We have to move on with our lives. Not forget about it completely, but just move on and keep in it the back of our thoughts, like our other tragedies. Those who were effected are free to use it as a day of remembrance. Everyone else needs to move on. Moving on isn't a bad thing. The future is bright. Embrace it.
