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Juan-Philipo · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 10:37 am

Vesuvius, I agree. Saying that every american feels a certain way would obviously be generalising... But even though danish, I know a looooot of american people, and one thing that shows in all of them, is that they feel that because this hit them and not some other country, it is somehow more important. It can not be stated enough that I feel its a great evil that happened, however sadly that happens many times a year, in other parts of the world!!! To say that it has more importance now, is wrong... But obviously you can't say that all americans feel that way, I'm just saying that the ones I know, feel that way.

Rat · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 3:08 pm

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Originally posted by SiLeNt_UK:
They want to change the title "THE TWO TOWERS" because it has connotations to "THE TWIN TOWERS". Is this takin it all a bit far?

Yes. This is taking it all waaay too far. Just wait, they'll want to change the name of the novel next. Then edit the Twin Towers out of every picture and film that involves New York...so okay. The towers are gone. So they never existed. No reference is ever to be made to them. You must forget their existance.

That's wrong.

Coaster · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 4:28 pm

Thats what memory holes are for.

ANTI · Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:21 pm

Heh knew this topic would be moved just by the title.... Anyway my 2 cents:

I live in Texas and didn't know anyone in those towers the people inside were as foreign to me as the people in Afganistan. Dont take that to sound uncaring, it's just that killing is killing and it's been going on since there were people to kill. Just because it happens to us makes it this big horrible thing. The weeks (hell months) after it happened it seemed more like a national holliday than a period of mourning. Where i come from mourning (take a funeral setting for example) is usually done mostly in silence. Afterward you dont put up big posters and make day long events every year after. To me the deaths were not the biggest shock. How quickly some people focused all their efforts into supplying little novelty flags/stickers/hats/shirts/etc to face the demand seemed worse than the actual tragedy. It just seems so evil to capitalize off of something like this and those who bought their flags and watch CNN daily are blindly supporting this franchise built on mass murder. To all who knew noone in the tragedy, if you go out of your way to mourn for them, should you not mourn equally for every innocent death. I cant believe so many of us have shown themselves to be so primitive/patriotic.