No one should forget 9/11. But they shouldn't dwell on it either. Last week at work, I used the word 'boxcutter' and the person, whom I had just recently met, said that word always reminds them of 9/11.

I found that to be utterly ridiculous. We live in near complete safety far from any threat of terrorist attacks.

Some people are addicted to "national" disasters, and exploit them as a form of excitement and drama in their otherwise dull lives, IMO.

But then, I never have grasped the whole nationalist identity worship so many Americans claim--I find it silly, pointless and completely irrelevant to my life. So maybe it's me.