yknow the other thing that's annoying as fuck about people who act all jingoistically weepy for the 9/11 deaths is that this event has been cemented in US public consciousness as like, oh there was nothing the poor government could have done... death by plane... which is bullshit actually because the towers were dangerously constructed and designed, and this was no secret among regulators and inspectors who had looked at it. so much of the death on the day-of was because people got trapped in shittily designed buildings with crap fire exits and choked on the smoke. and the towers stood that way because they were, like many large and '''innovative''' buildings, political symbols for nationalists invested in a fiction of usamerican greatness.