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subego
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Sep 11, 2014, 05:14 PM
 
Anyone get the feeling this is the year where today stops being "national tragedy day"?
     
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Sep 11, 2014, 06:20 PM
 
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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subego  (op)
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Sep 11, 2014, 06:37 PM
 
I am curious about how it affected the youngsters.
     
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Sep 11, 2014, 07:43 PM
 
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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Sep 11, 2014, 07:59 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
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.
     
subego  (op)
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Sep 11, 2014, 08:27 PM
 
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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Sep 12, 2014, 10:13 AM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
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.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
     
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Sep 12, 2014, 10:37 AM
 
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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Sep 12, 2014, 10:57 AM
 
Originally Posted by OreoCookie View Post
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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Sep 12, 2014, 01:22 PM
 
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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Sep 14, 2014, 10:52 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
I am curious about how it affected the youngsters.
It's as far distant to them as this is:
45/47
     
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Sep 14, 2014, 11:22 PM
 
My experience has been different.
     
   
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