I think we make too big a deal about 9/11

[hlthe2b]

18. Many of us have had lives defined by JFK assassination, Vietnam, MLK/RFK deaths, Challenger disaster

(and for me, at least, Columbine shootings), and ultimately 911. All of it, televised to the nth degree, much of it live.

Just as my parents were defined by Roosevelt's radio address following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941--a day that will live in infamy.

It isn't that we commemorate these events on major anniversaries. It is that we do so poorly teaching history. I didn't have to google an event that occurred before I was born, nor do I have to do so for an event (JFK assassination) that I was really too young to have more than a child's impressions. These are important events that have, for good or bad, brought us to this day.

I point you to my sig line. It isn't ignoring history that is causing us problems, but failing to learn from it.