So just because death is more common elsewhere around the world, we're supposed to ignore one of the biggest events to occur on American soil? Death in any case is not something that should be taken lightly. I may not know every child personally who is dying from a hunger cycle or a malnutrition disease in a country in Africa, but I have sense enough not to belittle it because things are worse in another country.
Just because things are so unfathomably complicated in Africa, that doesn't mean you compare the death going on there and the death tied in with 9/11, that's just stupid. You're not comparing politics here, so why bring it up? What you are saying is that, because Africa isn't preceived by the majority of unenlightened and generalizing teenagers to be a 'jerk' by the rest of the world, and the US is, we have every right to dismiss 3,000 dead people in the United States.
Death is death. If you're going to bring up the US's political faults, why not bring up Africa's? Sure there's less of them, but if you're going to compare, make the comparisons unbiased.
9/11 isn't just remembered for the amount of lives lost. When, as you said, America's high esteem was personally shit-kicked, the US became very defensive, as any country would, but maybe not to that degree.
Anyway, I don't really "do" anything on 9/11 personally. There's nothing I can do, but I still remember it. Just like people still remember JFK's assassination. Or the Titanic. "OMG MORE PPL DIED IN AFRIKA THAN IN TITANIK AND JFK LOL"
Shut up.