Warbler said:

go fuck yourself. why don't you go out and by yourself an Al Qaeda tee-shirt and ball cap.

I am putting you on ignore. I am done talking with you.

Taunting him by calling him an Al Qaeda sympathizer like this is a very poor move. I agree that people pick on you man, but it's hard to sympathize when you react like this.

Anyway, here's the thoughts of someone who was SEVEN when 9/11 happened. I get that it was a tragedy. Hell, my aunt worked in the second building (and somehow survived.) The thing that matters now though? That day, nobody was from the South - or the Left Coast - or New England, or whatever. We were all American. Even though this event happened in New York, we felt it all the way in California.

And that patriotic spirit is totally fucked now. We need to still think like that, no matter what kind of tragedy ends up sparking it. Now, I don't mean the Team America attitude of FUCK YEAH. I mean the fact that it was a rude awakening that brought people together.

So in that sense, I won't forget that 9/11 made me an American instead of a Californian. But dwelling on it won't do us any good either.

I leave you with this: