Seems like this year no one really cares that it's 9/11.
I think people are starting to forget about it. Not really the day itself, but just what that week or two afterwards was like.
Bad News Bears.
If we start to forget about it, it will happen again. Now, that doesn't mean we should all be in a constant state of fear, or that every 9/11 we should all be in mourning all day long. But I think that once people start to let the anniversary bypass without giving much thought to what it was like, and how freaked out everyone was, then people as a whole will get lulled into a false sense of security, "Oh, THAT thing. That really sucked. Ah well, the past is the past. Let's go play Madden."
All I'm saying is that people have to make sure they remember the day and not think of it as something that won't happen ever again. Kids of our generation (I guess we're young adults now) have a tendency to pay no attention to stuff that isn't directly affecting them. And if we forget how crazy that day was, running around Harborfields watching it on the TV in the senior lounge, going home and just sitting with the news on for the next month, then when we eventually come to be in charge, boom boom, nuclear suitcase in Time Square.
Maybe I'm inventing this in my head. It just seems like last year everyone had something in their away messages about it, more news was covering it as a special day, etc.
All I'm saying is don't think that 'terrorism' was a one-time deal and can't happen again.
Crazy rambling theory over.
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I think it's more of an emotional thing. It's not htat people want to forget it happened, it's that htey don't want to go through the pain anymore. Certain things set off the post traumatic stress disorder and it's liek it's happeneing all over again.
That's why I refuse to visit ground zero or watch TV today.
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