I shall avoid any mawkishly sentimental posting today. The TV coverage of the tenth anniversary was inevitable, and of course very very sad. Eldest pointed out to me that since 9/11 there have been far more deaths in Iraq, and that we do not have anywhere near the same fuss about that. She's right of course, and how can we justify this? Well I suppose that you cannot compare atrocities. The point that she makes is right, but it still cannot take away from the sheer revulsion that we all felt that day. I put on a documentary called "102 minutes that changed America". We sat and watched the whole thing, a real time documentary using amateur footage, and I think it became clear why the day was so significant and tragic. Perhaps the biggest tragedy is the fact that we do not seem to have progressed since then
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