When will 9/11 fade in emotion like Dec 7?

[TwiceOver]

One of my friends posted a facebook thing "Remember how we treated eachother during that trying time? We need to get back to that."

All I could think was "Remember how our government treated us before that trying time? We need to get back to that."

 

[CountZero]

Historically it will be mentioned for quite a while but the emotion is already fading.

Thinking back to pearl harbor and I remember as a kid there being quite a bit about it on TV but by high school it was merely a footnote for the day, so roughly 50 years out it was merely historical not emotional aside from those directly affected.

After the 30th anniversary I'd guess that, unless you were directly affected, the overall emotional feeling will be very small. Like any other historical moment you may remember how you felt at the time but those feelings won't be that strong anymore.

 

[alkemyst]

People that do not believe in conspiracy are morons.

It's no different that trade secrets and Top Secret items aren't free to look at.

Most of our rulers fear their poor.

 

[lupi]

guess it takes about 13 years. didn't realize today until completing a survey report about an hour ago and locked at the date to write down.

 

[desura]

It's already faded.

Though to be fair, I'm not a New Yorker (most of the country is not) so I didn't have a connection to the WTC.

I guess some New Yorkers still get a little choked up looking at the skyline and not seeing the towers? I'm more glad that there haven't been further attacks on the homeland. 9/11 could easily have been the start of a flood of terror attacks.

 

[Craig234]

Unless it make it a commercial festival like Valentines day or something, it will fade away. In 10 15 years the young generation will say, oh well Hitler downed two buildings, bad Hitler.

Actually I think Bush and Cheney did say that in 2001. Or something similarly wrong.

 

[Craig234]

People that do not believe in conspiracy are morons.

It's no different that trade secrets and Top Secret items aren't free to look at.

Most of our rulers fear their poor.

In conspiracy at all, any time? Well, who doesn't believe in that?

Or do you mean on 9/11? Well, given there were 19 hijackers backed by Al Queda, that's a conspiracy by definition.

Or do you mean some nutty paranoid lies that the government did it?

The rest of your post doesn't make much sense, and while leaders used to fear the poor, not so much anymore.

Rome's Emperors had bread and circuses to keep the masses from marching and killing them. Crowd control has greatly improved today. We're regressing on public power.

 

[Craig234]

9/11 killed three thousand. WWII killed 50 million.

Though our response to 9/11 might have resulted in a million more killed, but we in the US had little awareness.

I said on 9/11/01, and I say today, we need the ability to respond to terrorist attacks proportionally and not let them get us to overreact and do bad things.

We'll probably never prevent a person from being able to go kill a bunch of Americans.

The most shocking thing is that it hasn't happened a lot more. We like to pretend it's because the government is preventing it, but they can't. No one can.

Of course the government can do a lot - but it can't prevent someone killing people.

 

[mikeford]

Who knows in 5 years 9/11 may be known as the date Obama started WW III.

 

[Triumph]

Faded for me this year definitely, don't remember how I felt last year.

 

[mmntech]

It'll always be a New York thing for sure. Elsewhere, it will slowly become a thing that's known about but never really acknowledged.

 

[Fritzo]

Out of Pearl Harbor we got WWII.

Out of 9/11 we got Iraq.

The biggest problem with 9/11 is our emotions and hearts were used as capital for one of the dumbest things our government has done in living memory.

edit: spelling

I agree. The Iraq war was the straw that broke the camel's back in trust in our government. It put the US citizens in the awkward position of "I support our troops fighting, but I'm not sure what they're fighting for since the group that attacked our country is in Afghanistan..."

Since we have the Internet reminding us 24/7 of 9/11 every year now, I don't think it will fade as fast as Pearl Harbor. When Pearl Harbor happened, you had to look at books or be reminded on radio or TV shows that it happened. We have so much more media sensationalism these days it's hard to forget anything.