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Or maybe you can't imagine being someone who lost a family member on 9/11/2001 and seeing that ad.
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Actually I can imagine that, just as I can imagine losing a family member to alcoholism and seeing people on a BBS talk about drinking all night, or lost a cousin to AIDS and hearing a gay-bashing AIDS joke, or if I lost a son to a street racing collision and saw a hot rod peeling out, or lost a spouse to bee stings and then watched killer bees treated humorously in a commercial, or lost a grandmother in a concentration camp and see a guy polishing his Porsche, and so on and so on. I think it could be painful.
9/11 has become a sacred untouchable event in American history. People die tragically all the time, but this one is special in a strange way - instant outrage is encouraged. People seem to be generally outraged and enjoy in a perverse way the acceptable trigger points to let that general rage out, even though the events did not directly affect the raging man. The events of 9/11 have been blessed as an acceptable trigger point. Does the expression of outrage do anything more than confirm we belong to the group labeled "American"?
Every one of the 3000 deceased on 9/11 was a martyr to what, the American way? The deceased were people who went to work and died and left the lives of those who loved and depended on them. Coal miners do that. Soldiers do that. Firemen do that. Fishermen do that. Ordinary people do that every day.