I suspect the big reason 9/11 hit everybody so hard was that it was the first terrorist act against civilians on US soil. You weren't used to that...
(To be fair, we aren't used to it either. But the first acts of terrorism against civilians on Canadian soil were back in the late 1960s, and lead up to
the second assassination to take place in Canada - we've had time to get used to the concept of terrorists acting against us.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(To be fair, we aren't used to it either. But the first acts of terrorism against civilians on Canadian soil were back in the late 1960s, and lead up to
the second assassination to take place in Canada - we've had time to get used to the concept of terrorists acting against us.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012