September 11, 2001. To Remember.

[A dude named Vince]

I was 8 when it happened. I remember my teacher getting a call on her phone and moving into another room, and when it she came out she was close to tears. Her son was witnessing the attack while it was happening, and quite naturally, she was terrified, shocked, and saddened at the same time. I wish I could say the same for myself because, and to be perfectly honest, I didn't truly understand what was going on. I knew the two towers were there, I had heard about them, but I didn't fully know and understand until later.
R.I.P.

[Fritz]

Haha oh wow, you guys managed to turn a 9/11 remembrance thread into a minor argument. Well played, well played.

Also never forget, etc. Gawd I'm bad at these kind of threads.

[Comrade K]

I'm throwing my support behind Roo here. Obviously 9-11 is a great tragedy, and it's sad that so many people died, but how often do we stand in silence remembering the Eight HUNDRED THOUSAND Rwandans that were massacred in 94', or the MILLIONS that have been slaughtered in the Congo?
What of them?

You mean Danfur? Sure that's sad. And in Asia, Middle East, Africa.... but 2,800+ people were senselessly murdered six years ago today. So, let's remember them, as well as the others around the world that murdered this day however many years ago. Tomorrow, we could remember those that died that day, and so on.

But tomorrow, everyone will still be talking about 9-11, not the countless other losses of life.

The "Sure, that's sad." is what irks me most. You simply dismiss it because it didn't happen to you, the US or to westerners.
Oh, some more africans died the other day, change the channel, I wanna watch jeopardy.

[TyVulpine]

But the thing is, you always hear the news media spin about how people were mass-murdered in Africa or Asia or the Middle East. You don't hear about that kind of thing happening in the U.S. or Canada. Terror on the scale of 9/11 rarely occurs here. Most Americans had never experienced anything like that (your grandparents might remember Pearl Harbor).

[Bocaj Claw]

It was a tragedy. In a world full of them. When it happened it had a huge impact on Americans and those around the world. The date still has an impact on people but after seeing this tragedy used in the politics game so many times I say meh. Let the dead lie. Lest they come back as zombies and crowd our malls.

[Richard K Niner]

But the thing is, you always hear the news media spin about how people were mass-murdered in Africa or Asia or the Middle East. You don't hear about that kind of thing happening in the U.S. or Canada.

Not really. Whenever the media talks about those deaths, it's always a sidebar, and only done on occasion. And they still bring 9-11 up all the time when September rolls around.

[Fritz]

MAKE THAT A MODERATE ARGUMENT.

[Comrade K]

But the thing is, you always hear the news media spin about how people were mass-murdered in Africa or Asia or the Middle East. You don't hear about that kind of thing happening in the U.S. or Canada. Terror on the scale of 9/11 rarely occurs here. Most Americans had never experienced anything like that (your grandparents might remember Pearl Harbor).

The news media "spin"? You barely hear about that kind of thing happening anywhere. The "spin" is the fact the media ignores it. That's not the media's fault, by the way, it's those who watch it. Nobody really cares about the massacres in Africa, so the media doesn't pay much heed.

And whether that kind of thing occurs here or not, doesn't justify ignoring the times it happens elsewhere. You jumped on Roo for saying he's not too phased by 9-11 as he has his own country to worry about, and now you're dismissing the horrible state of affairs of other countries and focusing on your own.

And also, my maternal grandparents would remember September 1939, more vividly. That was the month we went to war. And my paternal grandparents remember the blitzkrieg firsthand, as well as the workcamps.

[Tum0spoo]

The united states of America cares more about who's going to win the super bowl than who's going to win the war in Iraq.

I was in 6th grade english class.
We had TVs in the rooms so we turned it to the news to watch. I wasn't sure what was going on, but I can tell you what the kids around me said.
"Oooooh! HAHA. Those niggas got pants up! Haha! Terrorists blew up newyork!"

This is the world I live in.

[klimt]

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[Tum0spoo]

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Also, to add.
Does anyone know what days the US dropped Fat man and little boy on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Do we mourn them?

[Bocaj Claw]

I do. And the creators of the atomic bomb do. Does that count?

[Arloest]

I'm throwing my support behind Roo here. Obviously 9-11 is a great tragedy, and it's sad that so many people died, but how often do we stand in silence remembering the Eight HUNDRED THOUSAND Rwandans that were massacred in 94', or the MILLIONS that have been slaughtered in the Congo?
What of them?

You mean Danfur? Sure that's sad. And in Asia, Middle East, Africa.... but 2,800+ people were senselessly murdered six years ago today. So, let's remember them, as well as the others around the world that murdered this day however many years ago. Tomorrow, we could remember those that died that day, and so on.

But tomorrow, everyone will still be talking about 9-11, not the countless other losses of life.

The "Sure, that's sad." is what irks me most. You simply dismiss it because it didn't happen to you, the US or to westerners.
Oh, some more africans died the other day, change the channel, I wanna watch jeopardy.

I essentially said the same thing :`(

[Loeln]

It was a tragedy. In a world full of them.

Time to do something about it.

[Bocaj Claw]

I agree. Lets blow up the world.