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BoomerD said:
Meh...don't really care anymore. It's turned into an excuse to ramp up police and government powers over the citizens...and a way to make money.

"OMG! 9-11!...9-11!"

I probably won't ever forget that day...but I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life in fear because of it.
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i won't forget the event. I also won't worry or cry or freak out about the day either.
 
No, I'm not going to elevate the lives of 3000 who died in a particular tragedy over the lives of others who died in any other way. All human lives are equal - your fellow countryman's life, lost in a tragic way, shouldn't be elevated over others.

People are impressionable, idiotic sheep when it comes to certain subjects, and tragic death is one of those subjects.
 
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ImpulsE69 said:
....and yet, here we are 11 years later, still divided and acting like selfish self centered children....
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What? You mean a terrorist act that killed 3000+ people and spawned wars on multiple fronts, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of more people, didn't somehow magically change the country/world into some pseudo-Utopian society with a single unified mind, focused purely on the betterment of mankind? :hmm:

I am as shocked as you are.
 
4,000 people died during the Trail of Tears. Which is around 1,000 more then died in the 9/11 attacks.

Where is the yearly tribute to the people who died during the forced relocation march?
 
Saint Nick said:
Reported
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Report that, you sniveling little girl...







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Texashiker said:
4,000 people died during the Trail of Tears. Which is around 1,000 more then died in the 9/11 attacks.

Where is the yearly tribute to the people who died during the forced relocation march?
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um, never heard of the Trail of Tears. if they had a yearly tribute i would have known.

60 years from now you want anyone asking 'what's 9/11'? :\
 
SandEagle said:
60 years from now you want anyone asking 'what's 9/11'? :\
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I give it 20 more years and 9/11 will be pretty much forgotten.

Go out on the street and ask a random person what is special about December 7th. Most of the young people today have no idea what happened on December 7th.

Within 2 generations (40 years) and 9/11 will be forgotten, just like 12/7.
 
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tcG said:
No, I'm not going to elevate the lives of 3000 who died in a particular tragedy over the lives of others who died in any other way. All human lives are equal - your fellow countryman's life, lost in a tragic way, shouldn't be elevated over others.

People are impressionable, idiotic sheep when it comes to certain subjects, and tragic death is one of those subjects.
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I agree. The City Worker who accidentally falls from a ladder and dies should not be treated as less tragic of a death than someone sitting in an office building when a plane hits it. They're both tragic, although the latter is just more shocking and graphic. Here in Canada, a lot of people my age were more saddened by the death of Ernie Combs who died a week after 9/11. Ernie Combs was the host of a popular children's show Mr. Dressup, that many Canadians grew up watching on TV.
 
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