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Originally Posted by Muta
I'm with you on this as well, as callous as it may sound. My heart goes out to the 3,000 9/11 victims, but it also goes out to the 100,000+ dead civilians in Iraq as well.
Hundreds, thousands of deaths occur every day for wrong reasons. 9/11 was just on our soil, which is the only thing that makes it different from the rest. But it doesn't make it any more important than the other war-related deaths that have occured because of those events on that day 6 years ago.
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Well, its a double-edged sword isn't it? I mean, it happened here, so of course it has more impact on our lives. Just like Europeans know more about and have more respect for WW2. My co-workers are both 25 years old and they know nothing about WW2. In Europe, school children are assigned a grave plot to look after and they keep it manicured and pristine. Its really touching, especially being the grandson of a WW2 vet. It happened there, so it means more to them.