“I’ll always remember 9/11 wasn’t due to Iraq”?
Hey, what’s the number to 911?
You remember wrong, lame-o. They just hanged the guy that did it, I saw teh video online and EVERYTHING. And he was from IRAQ!!!1
He was FRAMED
FREE MUMIA ABU GHRAIB!!1!!
A few weeks ago I saw a sticker proclaiming “My sons are fighting for your freedom.” It was on the back window of a Hummer.
Ha! Ten years out of college, and I had forgotten about that dude.
“Have you forgotten Osamin Binn Laden? The president has.”
“Forgot Osama? Bush has” would work – nice short cadence.
Every good writer needs a good editor 
Could the person with that bumper sticker be trying for irony? Imagine a “yeah, right” tone of voice… or maybe I’m being foolishly optimistic.
I just want to forget it. After years of nightmares and morbid thoughts about box-cutters and collapsing towers, I’m really glad that the events of 9/11 don’t constantly consume my thoughts anymore.
No disrespect intended to the folks whose family members and friends died in the the attack, but sometimes it’s healthy to just let go of the past and move on…
How about “Got Osama? Noooooo!”
Okay, this TOTALLY cracked me up!
If you’re in Western Europe, most likely 112.
If you’re in Western Europe, 9/11 happened on 11/9.
Yes, I’ll always remember the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9.
Actually, unless an EXTREMELY large catastrophy were to take place (see Oklahoma City vs 9/11) it is unlikely that the 11th of September 2001 will EVER be really dampened in the public memory, let alone forgotten. Sure, after everyone that lived at that time has died it will be slightly less impacting, but no less than, say, Nagasaki or Hiroshima is now most of a century later (yes, I know not everyone that lived at that time in those cities are dead yet… but close enough).
We live in a time where technology allows AMAZING digital storage. I’m sure that, barring a complete wipeout of modern civilization from anything short of a meteorite taking all but a fraction of the population… We’ll be seeing the 9/11 broadcasts for many MANY years to come. Every December 7th you see the same videos of the attack on Pearl Harbor… And there were only a few people documenting that event as it happened.
To put it another way… I’m sure, if things don’t change drastically (like I mentioned above), people a thousand years from now should be able to play Atari emulations on whatever brain implant they have.
Very good point, clayton_e. People complain (with justification) that the History Channel spends too much time on WWII and Hitler. But one reason for it has to be that there exists miles and miles of public domain film.
I watched some of the Victory at Sea episodes the other day, and even when they were made (1952?) they were showing the usual Pearl Harbor footage and the now-familar gun camera clips from the Navy.
So, it’s very likely that the WTC videos will be used for years to come in documentaries. With 700+ channels of bandwidth (and growing) looking for material to fill the time, TV producers will be inventing new reasons to look at the same footage.
Is footage still a valid word to use now that it’s digital?
With the black background and white font of the got milk? campaign.
“Gut fish?” is popular around here.
Sure it will. Eventually, it will cease to bean event that affected you personally, and becomes yet another historical fact, no different than the war of 1812. No amount of footage will change the fact that it happened long ago, and things that happened to you personally or happened more recently take precedence.
I mean, I remember the Maine, in that I know what it was and what happened to it, but I don’t have any real feelings about it. 9/11 will be no different.
Maybe for people born afterwards, but for those of us who watched the Twin Towers collapse on live television, I don’t think we’ll ever forget how we felt that day. Am I wrong?
The bumper sticker is retarded. But I’m wishing I had a car so I could plaster some of your alternative stickers on the bumper.