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[Chef2]

Covers for September 12, 2018

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It's a great cover, but was there no 9/11 ceremonies they could place there instead?

 

[vicd]

October 1977

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Didn't National Lampoon use that exact headline decades ago?

Edit: Dang it, right as I was posting @vicd slid in with it.

 

[Severian]

It's a great cover, but was there no 9/11 ceremonies they could place there instead?

It's been 17 years. A key to a story on the front would be fine, but there doesn't need to be a full-blown cover about it.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It's been 17 years. A key to a story on the front would be fine, but there doesn't need to be a full-blown cover about it.

Yeah, but it happened in the city. If it was a paper in Podunk, or if there was some major news going on that day in the city, then I could see a different cover.

 

[Batman]

It's a great cover, but was there no 9/11 ceremonies they could place there instead?

I guess "Never forget" turned into, "Just another day."

 

[Jake_Taylor]

60 years ago you’d do a circle jerk with Lennon and McCartney and then never speak of it again. These days it would have been Snapchatted live.

 

[melock]

I guess "Never forget" turned into, "Just another day."

Or “9/11 was 17 years ago!”

 

[Batman]

Or “9/11 was 17 years ago!”

It has been pointed out that high school students now (and probably most college students as well) were either too young to remember it or not born when it happened.

 

[Neutral Corner]

October 1977

I loved Chris Miller.

 

[melock]

It has been pointed out that high school students now (and probably most college students as well) were either too young to remember it or not born when it happened.

It won’t be long before some of them will barely know what it is. A young guy I work with (24 I think) had no clue about Oklahoma City. I was going last year so I asked him what is OKC most known for. No clue. So I asked him who Timothy McVeigh was. Not a clue. Kids and young adults these days are really dumb.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

It won’t be long before some of them will barely know what it is. A young guy I work with (24 I think) had no clue about Oklahoma City. I was going last year so I asked him what is OKC most known for. No clue. So I asked him who Timothy McVeigh was. Not a clue. Kids and young adults these days are really dumb.

They're not dumb, they just have a different timeframe. My children were 12 and 8 when the Murragh building was bombed. Naturally it has relatively little impact on them. Look, JFK was my hero as a child. When he was killed, I was devastated -- for about 48 hours. I remember playing board games with friends and having a good time during the funeral match, etc, that Monday. If youth weren't able to put things behind them more than older people, our species would;ve petered out millennia ago.

 

[melock]

They're not dumb, they just have a different timeframe. My children were 12 and 8 when the Murragh building was bombed. Naturally it has relatively little impact on them. Look, JFK was my hero as a child. When he was killed, I was devastated -- for about 48 hours. I remember playing board games with friends and having a good time during the funeral match, etc, that Monday. If youth weren't able to put things behind them more than older people, our species would;ve petered out millennia ago.

Put it behind you sure but to know nothing of the worst domestic terrorist attack or the man who committed it shows ignorance and stupidity. It also doesn’t speak highly of the teachers he had along the way. There will be a time when young people know little or nothing of 9/11.

 

[Severian]

Kids and young adults these days are really dumb.

They aren't dumb for not knowing nor being alive when the Oklahoma City bombing happened. It takes a quick read through the Wikipedia article to get caught up.

 

[cjericho]

Yeah, but it happened in the city. If it was a paper in Podunk, or if there was some major news going on that day in the city, then I could see a different cover.

Isn't it usually on the front page on 9/11, not 9/12, even though the ceremonies take place on 9/11.

 

[Batman]

Put it behind you sure but to know nothing of the worst domestic terrorist attack or the man who committed it shows ignorance and stupidity. It also doesn’t speak highly of the teachers he had along the way. There will be a time when young people know little or nothing of 9/11.

It's also, without question, the single biggest world event to happen this century. It's the reason we've been in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since they've been alive, why the Middle East is a focal point of the news so often, and a contributing reason to why the country is so divided politically right now. You really can't teach any kind of modern history or social studies class without talking about 9/11.
Of course, whenever I was in high school in the 1990s most of our history classes only covered up to about World War I. We did deep dives into late 19th century political shenanigans, but usually ran out of time before we could get to more modern stuff. At best we brushed up against World War II's root causes at the very end of the year. We certainly didn't tread into Vietnam. So maybe it's just too recent for a lot of history classes to get to or even to fully evaluate yet.

 

[Slacker]

It's also, without question, the single biggest world event to happen this century. It's the reason we've been in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since they've been alive, why the Middle East is a focal point of the news so often, and a contributing reason to why the country is so divided politically right now. You really can't teach any kind of modern history or social studies class without talking about 9/11.
Of course, whenever I was in high school in the 1990s most of our history classes only covered up to about World War I. We did deep dives into late 19th century political shenanigans, but usually ran out of time before we could get to more modern stuff. At best we brushed up against World War II's root causes at the very end of the year. We certainly didn't tread into Vietnam. So maybe it's just too recent for a lot of history classes to get to or even to fully evaluate yet.

You're just pissed off because you don't know how to make avocado toast.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I was in college watching in the student union when the bombing happened. Today I’d tell you the most famous things about OKC are Westbrook and Bricktown, in interchangeable order. People forget damn quickly.

 

[melock]

On a side note about OKC, if you haven’t seen the memorial it is so well done. I was there last February and went back twice, and still felt like there was more to see. In the museum they have McVeigh’s car that initially put him in police custody because it had no license plate on it.