Current Events > Almost 1am in Western Australia, September 11

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Acknowledging the anniversary. Y'all post more timely tributes in the coming hours.

9/11
Never forget

https://youtu.be/0m3KePG2ROY?si=ceZogNHBMR5w_2Iv

RIP to all the victims, as well as the heroes of Flight 93 who showed incredible bravery and the heroes who ran into a horrible situation to save others.

I was watching some world war 2 documentary and it talked about the London bombings for like 71 nights straight. I remember 9/11, I cant imagine going through that 71 nights in a row

solosnake posted...

I was watching some world war 2 documentary and it talked about the London bombings for like 71 nights straight. I remember 9/11, I cant imagine going through that 71 nights in a row

I remember school assembly the morning (from our perspective) of it happening, or a little after.

Am I evil for being annoyed at the continued prioritization of yearly mourning for 9/11 victims while no one gives a single shit about the 1.2M (possibly more) who perished to COVID? We had points in time where there were 4k deaths daily for weeks. Those people didn't have to die. They could've been alive if it weren't for criminal negligence.

So many people died that the country's life expectancy literally went down. They've all been completely forgotten. Reduced to a number on a daily count. They all had families. No one ever mourns those people, except for their own families. Yet we still get yearly moments of silence for the 9/11 victims. When are we going to get a moment of silence for the 1.2M Americans that were killed by the virus?

Edit: And just to be clear, I'm not downplaying the 9/11 victims. I just don't like the fact that while COVID won't be forgotten, its victims were already forgotten in a day. You could even say they weren't forgotten at all because no one ever had them in mind to forget them.

VFalcone posted...

Am I evil for being annoyed at the continued prioritization of yearly mourning for 9/11 victims while no one gives a single shit about the 1.2M (possibly more) who perished to COVID? We had points in time where there were 4k deaths daily for weeks. Those people didn't have to die. They could've been alive if it weren't for criminal negligence.

So many people died that the country's life expectancy literally went down. They've all been completely forgotten. Reduced to a number on a daily count. They all had families. No one ever mourns those people, except for their own families. Yet we still get yearly moments of silence for the 9/11 victims. When are we going to get a moment of silence for the 1.2M Americans that were killed by the virus?

Yes

VFalcone posted...

Am I evil for being annoyed at the continued prioritization of yearly mourning for 9/11 victims while no one gives a single shit about the 1.2M (possibly more) who perished to COVID? We had points in time where there were 4k deaths daily for weeks. Those people didn't have to die. They could've been alive if it weren't for criminal negligence.

So many people died that the country's life expectancy literally went down. They've all been completely forgotten. Reduced to a number on a daily count. They all had families. No one ever mourns those people, except for their own families. Yet we still get yearly moments of silence for the 9/11 victims. When are we going to get a moment of silence for the 1.2M Americans that were killed by the virus?

Edit: And just to be clear, I'm not downplaying the 9/11 victims. I just don't like the fact that while COVID won't be forgotten, its victims were already forgotten in a day. You could even say they weren't forgotten at all because no one ever had them in mind to forget them.

Not evil. Sensible. Covid was orders of magnitude more of a tragedy than 9/11 can ever be

VFalcone posted...

Am I evil for being annoyed at the continued prioritization of yearly mourning for 9/11 victims while no one gives a single shit about the 1.2M (possibly more) who perished to COVID? We had points in time where there were 4k deaths daily for weeks. Those people didn't have to die. They could've been alive if it weren't for criminal negligence.

So many people died that the country's life expectancy literally went down. They've all been completely forgotten. Reduced to a number on a daily count. They all had families. No one ever mourns those people, except for their own families. Yet we still get yearly moments of silence for the 9/11 victims. When are we going to get a moment of silence for the 1.2M Americans that were killed by the virus?

Edit: And just to be clear, I'm not downplaying the 9/11 victims. I just don't like the fact that while COVID won't be forgotten, its victims were already forgotten in a day. You could even say they weren't forgotten at all because no one ever had them in mind to forget them.

I imagine it has to do with there being a specific time and date where it all happened.

Also, maybe not the time and place for this

The dissonance between C19 and 9/11 is definitely a point worth discussing. Might have something to do with the misguided patriotism associated with the latter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plattsburgh

We kicked some ass on this day.