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Teach your children well
This clip produced by Mark Dice, author of the Resistance Manifesto, is down-right disturbing. It features several current college students who don't know what year 9/11 occurred.
Think what you will about some of Dice's positions - he promotes the idea that 9/11 was an inside job - but to see giggling coeds shrug their shoulders when asked about an attack on the U.S. - that happened six years ago - is horrifying regardless of your politics or opinions. What's the reason? Apathy? Lack of education? Deep-seeded denial?
Some of the students gave it their best shot - "ummm, 2000? 2003?", while others just said "I don't know."
"Doesn't it concern you that you don't know?" Dice asks one annoyed student.
"Not really," she replies.
The morning of 9/11, my mother called me, just to make that human connection we were all seeking that day. She said she was only three when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, but that she still had vague memories - feelings, really - about the day and how it was addressed in her home.
I knew even before she relayed that story that 9/11 was going to have a similar, and even much more profound, effect on me, my family, and every American. I knew that the day that lived in infamy had, wretchedly and horribly, been surmounted by 9/11 - and I knew, or at least I thought, that we would never forget.
I will never forget. I hope some of the students (all of whom were at least pre-teens six years ago) who have placed that day in the recesses of their minds will go searching for it. It's not enough to know it happened, to know it was 'bad,' and to know, in some abstract way, that people died.
2,752 People Died on Sept. 11.
2001.
