It's that day again.

[conuly]

9/11.

The day the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in 1297.

What, you were thinking of another 9/11?

Sorry, I know, not solemn. But in another thousand years - hell, probably in another hundred years, nobody will care too much about today. Very few people care too much about December 7th, though of course they know what that day was. Nobody remembers exactly when the Boston Massacre was, and they certainly don't think about it yearly. I'm sure there's plenty of people who remember that OTHER 9/11, but I doubt they dwell on it. And people *do* dwell on it. Conversations just drift back there. While I feel generally bad about the dead, and I do think we'd all have been better off without it (for one thing, we mightn't be in Iraq, because we all know that was the excuse)... but I don't think it's healthy, the way people keep talking. "Never Forget" is a nice watchword, but how can you live your life if you really never forget, not for a second?

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80,000 people died on 6th August 1945 because of the atomic bomb, and another 60,000 died from fallout sickness before the end of the year. And apart from people in Japan, who really remembers that every year?

I do, but then again, I'm an apocalypse junkie. Someone drops nukes, I remember.