At 9/11/09 06:07 PM, Facepalmer wrote:
all day at school today we had to go to assemblies and marches and a bunch of stupid shit. what is so bad about this particular day? yeah the twin towers fell. that was like 20 years ago. you dont see us celebrating 2pac's death every year after he died. my point is, why do we still care?
o rly? In my school was the total opposite. We actually did fun stuff (like dunk tanks during lunch) and teachers were trying to be overly gleeful and when the mentioned 911 on the announcements they quickly switched and giggled to another subject. This was done as a means for getting people's spirits up and minds off the tragedy.
Why do ppl still care you ask? Because us Americans can't rationalize levels of tragedy. What of Holocaust, Sarin Gas attacks, Hiroshima, African Genocide? You dont see Japanese gettin all overly sorrowful over 1995 Sarin Gas that killed a shitload of people.