[CaptainCrunch]

Wow this thread certainly took a downward turn

With all due respect you guys who are downplaying 9/11, or telling us that America should get over it are coming accross as pretty cold.

the World changed for the worse on Sept 11, in one day there was a mass murder of unprecidented proportions that didn't happen over days or months or years. It happened in hours.

Sure there's war deaths, or deaths from natural happenings, but only a short time ago thousands of innocent people who had nothing more in thier day planner then going to work and going home were snuffed out, they weren't soldiers, or politicians, they were just ordinary people.

I lost a couple of friends who were working in the trade center, so when people say "We'll if it happened in Bankers Hall I'd be over it", or 9/11 is America fault, please forgive me when I say bully for you, that you can be so emotionally detached, and you can sit here on your high horse and start throwing lectures out.

And there's a reason terrorists took out buidlings in New York and not here in Calgary. And if Banker's Hall had been hit by terrorists, your damn right I would want to move on, and I sure as hell would not be out there trying to get the whole world to mourn with me. That's just plain arrogance.

I agree completely. We make such a big deal out of it. Why??? Yes, thousands of people died, and it was tragic. But tragic things, even worse than the attacks on September 11, happen quite often. Yet in most cases, you harldy hear a whisper about it.

The its our opinion thing is fine, even though I don't agree with it, but the person at the start of the thread didn't ask for a political discussion on the events of 9/11, he asked for memories or thoughts, not a damn political discussion. If you want to get up on a pulpit and tell us how there are greater tragedies, or how the American's caused it or whatever, start another thread.

Maybe I'm old when I say that the whole thing smacks of a lack of respect and manners.

Personally I'm probably not going to be over 9/11 for a while because it had personal consequences for me, I'll probably do something tommorrow, or take a moment.

The World changed on 9/11 period, it opened the doorway for incidents like the one in Russia, it caused war, and there's no end in sight.