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[OnOneRyder]

Yeah, that person is me. I don't give a **** who gets annoyed by it or if it seems repetitive. It's important to me, and I think it's good to remember the day and to honor those who lost their lives. It's a major life altering and world altering event, and I feel that it has had some impact on everyone's life.

Only because we let it impact our lives...bare with me here! Loss of life on this scale is nothing to forget, I'm not saying it should be. I am however going to step up and say regardless of it being a loss of life at the hands of evil, it's relatively small in the scale of things. Tens of millions of lives have been lost in the past century to genocide, and most Americans will never even learn that these events took place. Why you may ask? Because it doesn't hit home, it doesn't register with them on the same scale as something happening to their own people. Since 9/11 about 18.25 million people died from aids worldwide, and just shy of 100 million died from starvation around the world in the same time...yet how many of us actually do something to stop this?

Most Americans will say 9/11 changed their lives significantly...and it most certainly has. The country reacted to it in a manner which exhausted vast amounts of resources, resources which could have been applied elsewhere. I'm not saying nothing should have been done, but perhaps that too much attention is being given to fight wars to avenge the few when the many need your help more. Since that day your country has spend $1.28 trillion on their war on terror, that is an astronomical figure which instead of doing good was spent to fuel wars....that is a sad sad figure.

I for one would feel ashamed to give so much attention to a relatively small group and virtually ignore the overwhelming majority of those who lost their lives in the same time frame.