Good post, KafirChobee. I feel this way myself. Many people here get ghoulish pleasure out of watching the planes collide with those buildings. I'm not sure most of them even realize it. I feel that they think they're doing it to honor the fallen. If you want to do that, you don't have to turn on the TV.

I tend to agree with the guys who said that it was not only Americans who get morbid kicks from tragedy. I can't say for sure, but I think people in some other nations do it as well.

I'll ignore the whole thing, myself. The WTC attacks were in the past. Just because the Earth is in the same position around the Sun doesn't make the day significant for me.

35,000 people died last year in auto accidents in the US. That's an ongoing problem we can do something about. Let's put our energies into that instead.