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In response to "Mourn it? Likely for decades to come. Mark it with **significant numbers** of events, probably at least 30 years. -- nm" by Qale

30? No way. -- nm

Posted by Cuzzin Todd (aka cuzzintodd) Sep 11 '09, 06:42

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I put it at 30 more as a generational number. -- nm - Qale Sep 11, 06:45 5
- They still do a pretty noteworthy ceremony at Pearl and that's coming up on 68 years. - Will Hunting Sep 11, 06:45 4
  - There's still a ceremony every year at the Titanic memorial here in DC. -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 06:48 3
    - I suppose the magnitude of how big the memorials are is pretty subjective. Pearl Harbor is remembered I'd say only vaugely by most Americans now more - Qale Sep 11, 06:50 2
      - Honestly, I'd say it's the 3rd most famous date in American history - Will Hunting Sep 11, 06:59
      - there are relatively few people living who personally remember Pearl Harbor. -- nm - loosilu Sep 11, 06:59
Hell, we still celebrate the end of WWI every year. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 06:45 24
- we do? -- nm - znufrii Sep 11, 06:52 11
  - We call it "Veterans Day" now. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 06:53 10
    - I bet a majority of people don't even know what that signifies, other than they don't get mail that day. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Sep 11, 07:08
    - so, we kept the date, but decided to celebrate something else on it instead. - znufrii Sep 11, 06:56
    - So when do we start getting good deals on mattresses on September 11th? -- nm - Qale Sep 11, 06:56 7
      - There are about a hundred horribly tasteless "falling prices" jokes to be made here... -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 07:04
      - [deleted] 5
        
        Amusingly today is also Pearl Day at Six Flags over Georgia where Teh Gays buy fake pearl strands for charity and "take-over" the park. -- nm - Qale Sep 11, 07:01
        
        well, my calendar shows "Patriot Day (U.S.A)" on it, so any time now. -- nm - zork Sep 11, 06:57 3
        
        silly name for a holiday, imho. -- nm - znufrii Sep 11, 07:09 2
        
        Shush!!! -- nm - Massachusetts Sep 11, 07:10 1
        
        that one's okay. -- nm - znufrii Sep 11, 07:11
- completely different scale. 50 or more million people died from WWII -- nm - zork Sep 11, 06:46 11
  - I didn't say WWII. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 06:47 10
    - so amend my post to 37 million from WWI *shrug*. completely, completely different things from 9/11 -- nm - zork Sep 11, 06:50 9
      - And yet many more living Americans were affected by 9/11 than by WWI. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 06:51 8
        
        excuse me? 117,465 deaths (0.13% of the population) and 205,690 wounded of a population of 92 million. -- nm - zork Sep 11, 06:56 7
        
        Seriously? You're going to argue this? How many Americans living today personally remember WWI? How many personally remember 9/11? -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 06:58 2
        
        in both cases, 100% of the population was affected but there was a much higher loss during WWI. it affected people's daily lives at least as much -- nm - zork Sep 11, 07:00 1
        
        You're so pretty. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 07:01
        
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        i'm not worried how many *living* americans were affected. how many are still alive in 1776? you don't stop celebrating something after everyone dies. -- nm - zork Sep 11, 07:04 2
        
        i guess this should go under Ender's post -- nm - zork Sep 11, 07:05 1
        
        Either/or really. -- nm - Ender Sep 11, 07:06

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