There isn't anything too remarkable to 'remark' on today however, yesterday was quite interesting. My dad had come down from Edmonton so we went to downtown Victoria to do some sight seeing, while we were there a reporter from global, stopped us and asked us about how we felt about the 3rd anniversery of September 11 (cue eerie or bandstand music). To be honest I kind of knew that is was Sept. 11 since while flipping channels in the morning every american station had someone talking about the Terrorist Attacks.
The whole event is being overused to the point that for most people who really have no connection to the event, are really desensitized to the coverage, though I'm sure the polite thing to do for americans is to feign outrage and yell hysterically about protecting freedom. Especially with the upcoming elections in the US the republican party (while maintaining that they won't exploit 9/11) use every opportunity to bring it into the limelight.
So what I should of said to the reporter was that I think that the tragedy that befell the friend and famillies of 9/11 have been overshadowed by politics, people really should stop talking about it, when someone dies you don't keep talking about their death for years on end - one remembers their lives and the impact they had on your own life, the good times and the hard ones. If 9/11 keeps being used by politicians, film directors and sensationalistic media then they are all stomping on the living memories of the people who died.