One third of Americans cannot remember the year that 9/11 happened.

Pyru	One third of Americans cannot remember the year ... « on: August 10, 2006, 07:35:22 pm »
	Apparently true. Also, around 1 in 10 cannot remember the month and/or day of the attacks. The largest group that cannot remember the date is the 55-64 age group, which should be well away from age groups who are too senile to remember, or too disinterested in the world to bother. « Last Edit: August 10, 2006, 10:25:40 pm by Pyru » Logged

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« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2006, 12:52:50 am »

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I had trouble memorizing it for a while, but I've dedicated it to memory. It's one of those things that takes a long time to be ingrained into people's minds - eventually, it will become "history", and will eventually taught in class, where it'll just e another date shoved down their throats. Kind of funny, since I know many other dates that happened hundreds of years ago. Civil war - 1961-1965, Columbus reached land in 1492, Jesus died in 33 A.D.

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FISSURE	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #2 on: August 11, 2006, 12:57:45 am »
Reputation: +9/-1 Offline Gender: Posts: 4654	The group of people were senile old people. The mind is the first thing to go. Logged
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tippz	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #3 on: August 11, 2006, 01:22:30 am »
	Quote from: DevoutFollowerOfTheWeasel on August 11, 2006, 12:57:27 am Well, why am I not surprised? Ignorance and Apathy plaque this nation. no more than any other nation, really. Logged

FISSURE	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #4 on: August 11, 2006, 01:27:49 am »
Reputation: +9/-1 Offline Gender: Posts: 4654	Quote from: AlfSommers on August 11, 2006, 01:24:40 am Where did you hear about this statistic Pyru? It was in some paper or something, i heard this on another forum too. Logged
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« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2006, 10:04:39 am »

Quote from: FISSURE on August 11, 2006, 12:57:45 am

The group of people were senile old people.

The mind is the first thing to go.

You'd normally expect the group representing those with senility to start from the age group of 65 and upwards, but the biggest group that couldn't remember was the age group immediately below 65 and upwards.

Quote from: AlfSommers on August 11, 2006, 01:24:40 am

Where did you hear about this statistic Pyru?

The Daily Telegraph in the UK, on the 10th of August 2006 (yesterday). They ran a short article on it.

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Sprite Collector	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #6 on: August 12, 2006, 05:04:58 am »
Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 756	I'm not surprized. All of the hope and patriotism everyone felt was fake. We're drawn together in times of peril and do nothing for each ever after. Caring and welcomes fade as we move on into our normal lives and soon forget what has happened. Nations do not learn just as humans can only care for less than ten minutes. It's depressing, but not surprizing. Logged
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Hikij	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #7 on: August 12, 2006, 05:03:04 pm »
	9/11/01... Who can't remember that? Logged

Pyru	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #8 on: August 12, 2006, 08:32:17 pm »
	Quote from: Hikij on August 12, 2006, 05:03:04 pm 9/11/01... Who can't remember that? One in three Americans, apparently. Logged

Revan	Re: One third of Americans cannot remember the y... « Reply #9 on: August 13, 2006, 01:42:02 am »
Revan Does Not Care! Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 330	I can believe it, people in general are becoming so stupid and missinformed lately. Logged
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