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

[llmart]

58. Outstanding essay!

Thank you for so eloquently stating what a lot of us feel. It is never psychologically healthy to dwell on such a horrific event. Learn from it, yes. But every single year the media wants us to walk around with sad faces about something that happened twenty years ago.

I'm old enough to clearly remember JFK's assassination and enough time has now passed that there's sometimes a mere mention of it on the news, but for the most part people my age don't go around somber all day long because we witnessed the event. I'm quite sure that over the decades the same will happen with 9/11. There is a whole generation of adults that weren't even born when it happened. Many of them have no real feelings about the event even if it was taught in their history classes.