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It's easy to look back and think, "Yeah, what's the big deal?" and totally disregard the fact that the world has changed in a major way. 9/11 didn't just send shock-waves through the United States, but across the entire globe.
9/11 wasn't a major military offensive by a sovereign nation against the USA, it was a well calculated and highly successful attack that challenged this country's way of life. It sparked a great ideological conflict on the world stage that will be affecting the lives of our children for decades to come. Without 9/11, many parts of the world would not be what they are today. It really brought the US up to par on many things as well. The peaceful, carefree lifestyle that Americans have lived for decades is now gone. It's not coming back. Welcome to the security Europe has since long had to adopt.
We wouldn't be there either if such an attack wasn't so devastating, on the lives of our citizens, our economy, our security, and our way of life. Sorry, but Columbine and the JFK assassination didn't cause enough of an upset or mark such a catastrophic event as to not only unite this nation in solidarity for a period of time, but also to change the entire world and certainly the every day lives of US citizens for ages to come.
You want to know where you are today, you can't forget where you came from yesterday. Commemoration is not equated to fear mongering.
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