Comments on: 9/11 isn’t special; I must be un-American http://mandikaye.com/2011/09/09/911-isnt-special-i-must-be-un-american/ Sat, 18 May 2013 13:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Techskeptic http://mandikaye.com/2011/09/09/911-isnt-special-i-must-be-un-american/comment-page-1/#comment-12560 Techskeptic Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:52:14 +0000 http://www.mandikaye.com/?p=1555#comment-12560 #1 holy crap it’s berlezebub! Hi again after all this time
#2 one reason it may be remembered it that out of the list it was the terrorist event in American soil that killed the most people and caused the most damage in one event. If we get a worse one, I e pect that one will be remembered also.
#3 I often feel like people would call be unamerican. We became a huge surveillance state after that day, which to me made us unamerican. We became an even bigger military state which again was unamerican to me. I expect us to dominate by economic superiority and be a leader in human rights. That is what I think it is to be American.

]]> By: Berlzebub http://mandikaye.com/2011/09/09/911-isnt-special-i-must-be-un-american/comment-page-1/#comment-12318 Berlzebub Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:22:51 +0000 http://www.mandikaye.com/?p=1555#comment-12318 No, you’re not un-American. You just know the difference between “remembering” and “dwelling on”.

You bring up an interesting point, though. I wonder if the families that suffered losses during those other events you listed feel marginalized because of the annual specials?

As far as “patriotism”, I find that word as irritating as “spiritual”. 9/11/01 didn’t create patriotism, it brought out fear. If it had brought out patriotism, then the Patriot Act would never have been passed.

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