9/11

[BoSoxGal]

Watching coverage of the remembrance services at the memorial and the Pentagon - makes me really sad to think of how our world has permanently changed since the terrible day 17 years ago, beyond the awful losses of so many people which are ongoing as first responders continue to succumb to the illnesses rooted in work at ground zero.


I can’t help but wonder; will these extensive yearly remembrance services continue indefinitely as a fundamental part of the American experience, or will they wane as the years go by?

[Sue U]

Happy 9/11, everyone!

[Lord Jim]

9/11: 11 Tasteless Sales, Costumes and Events Inspired by the Terror Attacks

Here are some people, companies and retailers who forgot the right way to “never forget” Sept. 11



More :

https://www.thewrap.com/911-tasteless-s ... es-events/

[dales]

I can’t help but wonder; will these extensive yearly remembrance services continue indefinitely as a fundamental part of the American experience, or will they wane as the years go by?

I dunno, perhaps they will be remembered as such:

December 7, 1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

[BoSoxGal]

[Long Run]

Obviously, those 17 and younger were not there, and you add in the now young adults who were too young to understand the impact of that day, and you have almost a third of the country that wasn't alive or aware of the attacks. Their view of the attacks will necessarily be different than those of us who lived through it, especially since the number of families directly impacted is nowhere close to those impacted by our various wars. As the percentage of those who were too young to experience the attacks grows, it can't help but change the remembrances.

[BoSoxGal]

Isn’t the bigger rememberance not the moments of silence, tolling of bells and reading of the names at WTC, the Pentagon and Shanksville - but rather what we have allowed to happen to our country in the wake of the attacks and our ongoing ‘war’ on terror?

Have we honored the victims, really?



Al Qaeda Won

“Everything changed on 9/11” is the one thing everyone can agree on. A victory for the United States would have been for nothing to have changed.

[ex-khobar Andy]

I am in complete agreement, BSG.

[Joe Guy]

There's no victory possible after an attack like there was on 9/11. After the Twin Towers were destroyed, things changed. No change would be the same as pretending it never happened.

[Big RR]

True, but we still have to assess whether the individual change(s) made things better or worse. For the majority of the changes attributable (often by very circuitous means) to the 9/11 attacks, I'd vote for the latter. Face it, we're much worse off in many ways because of these changes,, from an erosion of civil rights to the "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan to ...

[Long Run]

The hard thing to appreciate is the number of attempted attacks that have not happened since then (compared to the relatively few that were carried out). It is hard for any of us to know what things have helped, hurt or been of no consequence.

[RayThom]

The hard thing to appreciate is the number of attempted attacks that have not happened since then (compared to the relatively few that were carried out). It is hard for any of us to know what things have helped, hurt or been of no consequence.

List of unsuccessful terrorist plots in the United States post-9/11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_u ... _post-9/11