What makes 9/11 unique is the spectacle surrounded with it.
There are about 20 different events per year where 3000+ people die but so very rarely are they killed in such extraordinary fashion.
For me 9/11 will always be a sore spot because the neeldess deaths of 3000 people became one of the most blatantly politicized events in history and was used as an excuse to invade a sovereign nation and caused the deaths of thousands more US citizens (around 4k now IIRC) and over 100k Iraqi civilians.
It also bothers me that such an terrible event makes me angry because then I feel bad for not being more sympathetic to the actual event. Stupid f***ing GWB and his BS regime. Fox News too. Way to trivialize the deaths of 3k of your own citizens for political gain.
Oh, and the 9/11 memorial site is pretty uninspiring to me. It could've been any spot in Manhattan and it wouldn't have mattered.
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