[Salvanas]

It happened 10 years ago. Yes, it was sad. Yes, it was heart-wrenching at how many people died. Yet it should stay as a lesson to be learnt, and not become some sort of annual event.

It's the same with WW2. I don't think anyone sane in this world would deny the terror and horrors it brought to this world. But I feel that we do not need to constantly have to have it shoved into our faces.

Remembrance days are used, unfortunately, as a sort of propaganda in the long run. Why, for example, do we not have a day of remembrance for the native people who were slaughtered when people landed on America? Are their lives not worth remembering? The fact that we destroyed their homes, and took over, isn't worth remembering?

Yet, instead, you have your "independence day" which you hold like a trophy. Don't get me wrong, this isn't aimed at America alone. It's aimed at the world.

Countries and governments use days like this like a weapon against their enemies. You think people would forget 9/11 without having to have a remembrance day for it? I think not. It breeds hatred towards their enemies (which is natural, I know) but people who hold such hatred close to their hearts are easily manipulated with only a few subtle words.

In 9/11 case, the blame was Bin-Ladin. But so quickly, and so easily, everyone started to think all Muslims were terrorists. And every year, it just makes people recall that hatred.