This may be heartless, but there's just something I don't get here. I don't know if I have some sort of mental issues, but I just cannot conceive why it is that people mourn 9/11 still. I understand, yes, tons of people died. By the same token, we only really talk about 9/11. I don't really remember anyone telling me in school that today was the anniversary of the holocaust, or anything related to what atrocities Stalin committed. I know it might be cruel, but am I the only one that thinks we really need to shut up and move on? It's been 10 freakin years guys, I'm fairly sure human nature makes us forget about these things. I've never had any loss in my life, and I'm only 14. So maybe that's it. So I ask you, am I the only one out there?
(Btw, I didn't feel this was worthy of mass debate, but if a mod thinks it is, by all means, move it.)
Same reason we mourn WW1, even though its almost 100 years since it began. To learn from the mistakes of the past.
Really it's not as much mourning as it is just remembering it.
The only reason why it might seem like mourning lately is because it was JUST the 10th anniversary.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;33227782]Same reason we mourn WW1, even though its almost 100 years since it began. To learn from the mistakes of the past.[/QUOTE]
This may be odd, but I've never actually seen anyone mourn WW1. Not sure why.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;33227856]Really it's not as much mourning as it is just remembering it.
The only reason why it might seem like mourning lately is because it was JUST the 10th anniversary.[/QUOTE]
This may seem heartless, but I never really understood remembering things like this. I dunno, never had any loss in my life, I just don't bother stopping to remember anything like this.
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Also, wow, 13 people are on this thread at the moment of writing this edit. Never thought that people were this active on facepunch.
We remember it on the day it happened because it was a significant event in which many people died.
it's the same reason we remember pearl harbor on december 7th, or people in the UK remember guy fawkes' plot on november 5th
nobody is forcing you to remember it, and for the most part nobody even brings it up except on and around 9/11 itself.
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are you suggesting that we stop remembering it altogether just because "it's been 10 freaking years"?
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton
Sums it up right here.
Heck, I never mourned WW1, nor did I remember November 5th or Pearl Harbor.
If 9/11 is so mourned, can we get a day off for it?
Because 3000 people died? I'm pretty sure we can set aside one day for the families of the victims to mourn/remember their dead family members.
[QUOTE=BlackCrow;33228054]Heck, I never mourned WW1, nor did I remember November 5th or Pearl Harbor.
If 9/11 is so mourned, can we get a day off for it?[/QUOTE]
This
i don't understand how 9/11 isn't like a day off for at least new york.
[QUOTE=Alpha 1-1;33227985]This may be odd, but I've never actually seen anyone mourn WW1. Not sure why.
This may seem heartless, but I never really understood remembering things like this. I dunno, never had any loss in my life, I just don't bother stopping to remember anything like this.
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I agree with you there actually, i don't really care at all.
Sure people died, families were devasted and it left the country in shock, but in all honesty it didn't effect me and i don't really care.
Well i DO care, but i'm not like "9/11 GODBLESS AMERICA!"
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[QUOTE=latin_geek;33228109]This
i don't understand how 9/11 isn't like a day off for at least new york.[/QUOTE]
I thought New Yorkers did get the day off, wow.
I think if the internet had been around during The Holocaust or Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima or the burning of Rome, those events would have been more documented and more widely seen by more people around the world. 9/11 just happened to occur at a time where the coverage was nearly infinite, and instantaneous. Thus, more people of the Earth were witnesses to it. And the internet continues to bring it up again and again (just like this thread is doing), so it has stuck around. Doesn't diminish the tragedy of other events or cheapen the events of 9/11 in my opinion, it's just the timing of it.
More people died in any war than 9/11
But of course Michael Jackson's death is a lot more important.
Way I see it, don't mourn the death of people. But remember the lives they led.
because we as americans considered it not only a terrible act of terrorism and a day that thousands of people died, but also an event that shattered our false preconceptions of invulnerability.
Because that's when the world turned to shit and it hasn't done anything but get worse.
[QUOTE=Lord of Ears;33228168]but also an event that shattered our false preconceptions of invulnerability.[/QUOTE]
SO TRUE
[QUOTE=latin_geek;33228109]This
i don't understand how 9/11 isn't like a day off for at least new york.[/QUOTE]
nah montana should get the day off too
esp. from school
It still gets so much attention because it has become an incredibly useful marketing tool, politically (and socially, in some regards) speaking. When it happened, people suddenly felt "MUR'CA" and now, it's easy to take advantage of that. Just walk into any GOP convention, say some bullshit, relate it to 9/11 somehow (even if totally unrelated), and become their newest hero.
saying that it's not important because it didn't affect you is retarded.
also, most of you were all probably too young when it happened for you to fully appreciate what 9/11 actually was.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;33228109]This
i don't understand how 9/11 isn't like a day off for at least new york.[/QUOTE]
A big city such as New York can't get a day off. Unless the important business stays up.
[QUOTE=heathendevil;33228359]also, most of you were all probably too young when it happened for you to fully appreciate what 9/11 actually was.[/QUOTE]
that's stupid
[QUOTE=Alpha 1-1;33227754]This may be heartless, but there's just something I don't get here. I don't know if I have some sort of mental issues, but I just cannot conceive why it is that people mourn 9/11 still. I understand, yes, tons of people died. By the same token, we only really talk about 9/11. I don't really remember anyone telling me in school that today was the anniversary of the holocaust, or anything related to what atrocities Stalin committed. I know it might be cruel, but am I the only one that thinks we really need to shut up and move on? It's been 10 freakin years guys, I'm fairly sure human nature makes us forget about these things. I've never had any loss in my life, and I'm only 14. So maybe that's it. So I ask you, am I the only one out there?
(Btw, I didn't feel this was worthy of mass debate, but if a mod thinks it is, by all means, move it.)[/QUOTE]
Because, you're probably a 13-20 year old. You were still in pre-school-4th grade when you were told. You had no idea what was going on, how serious it was. You've grown up in an atmosphere of hatred and war, not one that physically affects you, but it affects countries your government interacts with.
It's the same reason your father doesn't mourn WWII, but your grandfather does.
Oh I don't know...
Maybe because it's [I]really[/I] tragic for some people to see the world trade centres being completely destroyed?
The media replayed the same footage of the plane going into the buildings and the following collapse of the buildings and the aftermath, it's been engraved into every Americans mind, and most of the worlds mind too.
Huh. I guess I'm in the minority, recognizing the dates of Pearl Harbor, the Armistice, 9/11 and various other major dates and disasters and at the very least making note of them. Not really mourning, but there's nothing wrong with that, either.
I don't get it either. More people died in Hurricane Katrina but we don't mourn that.
wait how do you disagree with a death toll
I live in Colorado. Schools still put the flag at half mast and have the moment of silence because of the Columbine Shootings every year.
We still do that because that was closer to us than other states.
9/11 was the last big thing to happen to the whole country.
After the next thing happens to the country as a whole, we'll mostly forget about 9/11 and go onto 'remembering' the next thing.
Because it happened in America and America likes to make a big deal about things that happen.
Its pretty much the event that drew out our lives for the past 10 years. I don't necessarily see people mourning anymore, more-so remembering an event that shaped the way America is today.
It's like any major event where people didn't deserve to die. We should remember them regardless for how long it has been.
Because fellow Americans died, and because we were unstoppable as a nation, we could overcome any odds and have always persevered. Then we were shown that we are vulnerable. Despite our failures, we are still a nation of good hardworking people and we will get our mojo back, and become better than we are now.
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