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I read through the thread with the WTC tragedy joke in it and realized that there are no popular jokes about 9/11/01. This in itself seems to make sense because of the horror and the shock. But generally, a few days after something bad happens, a number of jokes surface. It is as though we can only come to terms with tragedy by laughing about it.
Is the WTC/Pentagon tragedy so horrific that we cannot laugh about it? Were too many people killed in too horrific a manner? Or is it too fresh? I believe both points are true.
Will we ever begin to laugh at/over the events of 9/11? I believe we will. The laughter is part of the healing process. But its going to take a lot of time.