The man in the ranks of Tuthmose Ill's army of Armageddon was deluded about the importance of his death, but the man in a Chieftain tank (or a T-62) in Germany today is not. And I am the Queen of Sheba. - Gwynne Dyer
This is not to minimize what happened that day - it was evil, and it was an evil whose origin we, as Americans, have not come to terms with; instead we have substituted raw jingoism.
But in another sense, 9/11 - like the Black Plague, like so many other horrors of history, is increasingly experienced in its dependency with other phenomena; and in 5 generations will be thought on as the Great Influenza is thought of.
It is simply the mandate of the process of humanity's memory and forgetting.
Remember the Maine? Remember the Alamo? If so, only as images in a high-school history book.
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