Trivial Point
Sep. 12th, 2011 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danalwynIt seems crude to post 9-11 comments on 9-11, so I postponed a day, but here's a thought. According to the US Census's International Data Base, about 18% of the world's population is too young to remember September 11th. That means that within a few months one in five people on Earth will have been born after 9-11. For one-fifth of the people alive now, 9-11 will always have the kind of hazy distance to it that Vietnam had to my generation, and that World War II had for the Cold War generation.
The rest of the world is moving on. They've had larger tragedies, greater problems, and challenges that cut much closer to home. Many of them have put it behind them, and now an increasingly large number will never have had it in front of them. They are moving on. Hopefully, having marked off the ten year anniversary, the US can now do the same.
The rest of the world is moving on. They've had larger tragedies, greater problems, and challenges that cut much closer to home. Many of them have put it behind them, and now an increasingly large number will never have had it in front of them. They are moving on. Hopefully, having marked off the ten year anniversary, the US can now do the same.