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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Anyone get the feeling this is the year where today stops being "national tragedy day"?
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Clinically Insane
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Slightly akward situation at lunch:
Restaurant supervisor to her employee: You do remember 9/11, right ?
Employee: Uhm, kind of. I was 4.
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Clinically Insane
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I am curious about how it affected the youngsters.
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Clinically Insane
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They must be confused.
It was dem muslim terrorists that supposedly blew up the WTC, but now we have a muslim Kenyan named Barack in the oval office.
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Originally Posted by subego
I am curious about how it affected the youngsters.
Probably not at all. They see explosions and action in movies all the time. They need to become teens at least before they develop a better anchorage in time.
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Clinically Insane
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That aspect interests me too. Seeing people flip out but not being able to put it into context.
Likewise, getting some of that context after the fact as they got older.
I imagine it's a little like not paying attention to an important scene in the beginning of a movie, and then having to piece together what you missed from later parts.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Originally Posted by subego
Anyone get the feeling this is the year where today stops being "national tragedy day"?
Sure, you just need to remember that 25 years ago on September 11, Hungary opened their borders, thereby opening the Iron Curtain.
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Yesterday I saw outraged posts about businesses tweeting a somber 9/11 remembrance tweet, directly after their "buy our new shrimp dish!" tweet, and I just didn't see the point of being upset. If we can't advertise our new shrimp dishes, the terrorists won. Or something.
There was a lot of press on the 10th anniversary, and the opening of the museum... there's only so often I can let myself revisit that well of emotion.
Shrimp! Yum!
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
Sure, you just need to remember that 25 years ago on September 11, Hungary opened their borders, thereby opening the Iron Curtain.
Don't forget the 1973 Chilean coup d'état
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Clinically Insane
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And a scant two years earlier, my birth!
Full disclosure: this may have something to do with my interest in how people perceive this day of the year.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by subego
I am curious about how it affected the youngsters.
It's as far distant to them as this is:
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