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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

I was in my dorm room and watched it unfold on TV. School got cancelled, and we went to the mall. Several marines in uniform were walking around looking for recruits.

I thought it sucked, and I was stunned it actually happened, but it didn't really come off as an attack. It was more like a unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing event. If there were missiles or something then yeah. Homemade bombs or flying hijacked planes into buildings just comes off as an isolated incident that could happen at any time. Even now, how hard would it be to rent a large, private jet and fly it into a building? Would that even be hard? The country acted like it was Pearl Harbor 2.0, and because of that, it felt like that, but not personally.

Obviously I commemorate the bravery of the first responders and mourn the loss of those who died when I think of the day, but I don't really do anything the day of.

So I am going to say something that is probably not very popular: why are we still memorializing this event? Do we need to cover this each and every year? It has been twenty years, but the news coverage is like it happened one year ago when turning on the TV every September 11th. Is it time to move on?

We still make movies, games, and books about WWII. So I doubt we will move on from it anytime soon. There are some things I do think we can/should move away from that came from it. Notably TSA. But it's a significant attack on US soil and it's not exactly something that happens often.