# "We'll always remember 9/11"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 3, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528 "2007-01-03T13:35:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/1 "2007-01-03T13:35:22Z")
If someone has a bumper sticker proclaiming this on their SUV (or other vehicle, I just usually see them on SUVs), what exactly are they trying to communicate?
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/2 "2007-01-03T13:52:49Z")
Someone around here has a sticker that reads, “Am I the only one who remembers 9/11?” Whenever I see them, I just scream, “Yes! You’re the _only one_, asshole!”
And then I puzzle over it for a while.
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### Author:  [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/3 "2007-01-03T13:55:49Z")
It means, “Thank God we’ll always have an emotional crutch, to beat Democrats over the head with.”
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/4 "2007-01-03T14:02:37Z")
“Hey Look at me, I’m willing to put crap on my bumper so that others will know how good I think I am”
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/5 "2007-01-03T14:23:03Z")
Well, we won’t always remember it, will we? Can you imagine how many bumper stickers there’d be if every tragedy since the beginning of human history never slipped out the general populaces’ awareness?
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/6 "2007-01-03T14:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle]
Someone around here has a sticker that reads, “Am I the only one who remembers 9/11?” Whenever I see them, I just scream, “Yes! You’re the _only one_, asshole!”
And then I puzzle over it for a while.
[/QUOTE]
No doubt, the person with the bumper sticker is mad that some people are still against attacking Iraq in response to 9/11.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/7 "2007-01-03T17:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim]
No doubt, the person with the bumper sticker is mad that some people are still against attacking Iraq in response to 9/11.
[/QUOTE]
That’s exactly right. The minute you speak against the war on Iraq, someone will invariably respond, “Have you FORGOTTEN 9/11??”
Now we just need a snappy bumper sticker retort for that.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/8 "2007-01-03T17:50:37Z")
9/11? Did something happen on that day?
Oh, right. That’s right. Thank God for bumper stickers.
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/9 "2007-01-03T18:20:26Z")
I’m just glad somebody remembers that hellish day back in 1903, when the _S.S. Inchulva_ foundered in a hurricane, with the loss of nine of its crew.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/10 "2007-01-03T18:25:14Z")
Apparently Henry Hudson also landed on Manhattan on 9/11/1609. NEVER FORGET!
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/11 "2007-01-03T18:31:37Z")
The bumper sticker people care more, and are therefore better Americans. The rest of us are quasi-terrorists.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/12 "2007-01-03T18:35:42Z")
Calm down guys, they’re just reminding you of the number to call if you’re in an emergency.
Sheesh, try and do people a favor these days…
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/13 "2007-01-03T18:36:04Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages]
That’s exactly right. The minute you speak against the war on Iraq, someone will invariably respond, “Have you FORGOTTEN 9/11??”
Now we just need a snappy bumper sticker retort for that.
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That’s the problem with nuance – it doesn’t translate well to sloganizing.
twicks, who has a “Peace” sticker on her car – and thus obviously has forgotten … what was that date again?
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### Author:  [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/14 "2007-01-03T18:43:35Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim]
Well, we won’t always remember it, will we? Can you imagine how many bumper stickers there’d be if every tragedy since the beginning of human history never slipped out the general populaces’ awareness?
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Ah, but you have to remember that our populace possesses a certain vanity that takes the form of:
_Anything that happened during our generation is much more important that what has happened in the past. Because, like, you know, we’re more important._
Overcoming this misconception is is probably the best reason for history to be a mandatory subject.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/15 "2007-01-03T19:12:58Z")
[QUOTE=RTA]
It means, “Thank God we’ll always have an emotional crutch, to beat Democrats over the head with.”
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Umm… didn’t the 9/11 attacks occur under a Republican gubmint? :dubious:
Perhaps someone could print up a few reading:
**BUSH & CO**
_Fomenting the next 9/11 since 2002!_
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/16 "2007-01-03T20:07:03Z")
I think it means “if i give up my suv, the terrorists have won.”
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/17 "2007-01-03T20:10:03Z")
[QUOTE=twickster]
If someone has a bumper sticker proclaiming this on their SUV (or other vehicle, I just usually see them on SUVs), what exactly are they trying to communicate?
[/QUOTE]
“After seeing the numerous mass killings and genocides in the world over the last 60 years, I’ve decided to cover up my ‘Never Again’ sticker because it embarrasses me?”
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/18 "2007-01-03T20:13:35Z")
[QUOTE=gigi]
Apparently Henry Hudson also landed on Manhattan on 9/11/1609. NEVER FORGET!
[/QUOTE]
Whoa. And then 392 years later, TO TEH DAY… Whoa.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/19 "2007-01-03T20:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim]
Well, we won’t always remember it, will we? Can you imagine how many bumper stickers there’d be if every tragedy since the beginning of human history never slipped out the general populaces’ awareness?
[/QUOTE]
I am so getting a bumper sticker that says “We’ll always remember the Boston Tea Party”.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-always-remember-9-11/386528/20 "2007-01-03T20:18:21Z")
Some alternative bumper stickers:
- we’ll always remember Iraq’s WMDs
- we’ll always remember ‘Mission Accomplished’
- we’ll always remember to vote Republican
- we’ll always remember that Democrats hate God and love evolution
and best of all
- we’ll always remember 9/11/06 (70 Iraqi civilians killed)
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