In our house, that's shorthand for "Why in the hell do people keep prattling on about September 11?" I just read an editorial in the LA Times with this sentence:
As President Bush indicated in his press conference Tuesday, such atrocities [referring to the strung up corpses, kidnappings, etc.] won't sap U.S. will in the short run. They might only increase the determination of a nation still smarting from the agony of 9/11.
More and more, when I hear or read some media person talking about the "nation" and "9/11" in the same breath, I have to think "Who in the hell are they talking about?" I don't want to diminish what happened that day, but speaking for myself, I only think about 9/11 when it's brought up by someone else. Granted this happens all the freakin' time, but left to my own devices I'm more worried about stuff closer to home...or at least more contemporary events. I don't feel like I'm smarting from 9/11 any more than I feel the sting of the Alamo, or taste the salty bitterness of Carthage.
Surely I'm not alone in this.
Posted by Jason at April 15, 2004 10:18 AM