I only read the first dozen or so responses to the thread, but I feel the need to respond to them and don’t want to read all 100 responses. Sorry if this has been brought up - if it has, well, this is my take.
Several people have mentioned how the death toll from 9/11 was happening every day, and people aren’t really apparently concerned about it. But 9/11 was more than the loss of a few thousand lives. It was the destruction of two very important buildings that not only were worth a great deal of money to the owners (did they have insurance against this type of damage?) but were also important historically and were a staple of the New York skyline.
I’m not sure what my point is, other than it seems people here near the beginning of the thread focused on the death toll and not on the property and symbolic loss.
The Pentagon was also hit by a hijacked plane, but that doesn’t seem to draw nearly as much interest. Not as many people died, not as much damage was done to the building.