Frightening. I can think of many more...Locherbie plane disaster in Scotland and there are a few more in the UK and Ireland i can also think of.

This is a very special and unique post you’ve written, Reverend T. It’s unlike anything else I have read or seen on today’s anniversary of 9-11. We Americans can get so tied up in what has happened to us that we forget that others have suffered losses and pain.

Thank you especially for all of links. I had not read or heard of many of them. Our world is really hurting, isn’t it? And it has been hurting for a very long time.

It's terrible that the list is so huge.
Take care, Meow

Until I saw this I had not known that 3 Gandhis had been asassinated. Rather like the Kennedys, but worse.

Far, far too many tragedies.

hey my bros home from iraq & hes not going back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's funny...R and I were talking about this last night. I wonder how many people will remember this is 50 years (just like Pearl Harbor day....some people have no clue what Dec. 7th is or means).

John Lennon sang, "War is over (if you want it)," but it appears nobody does. Everybody has an historical reason to kill everybody else.

Thank you for reminding people that 9/11, as horrible as it was, is not the tragedy the world has known. We talk a lot about terrorism. Our current leaders use the fear to their advantage. But people in other countries have terrorist actions happen regularly. It's a very sad state of affairs.

MICHELLE: Yes, there are many more. Terrorism did not begin with the attacks—I include the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center—on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in the United States, no matter what the Bush administration would have us believe. Terrorism, which I define as indiscriminate attacks on non-combatants, has been around for a very long time.

AZSONOFAGUN: Thank you, Rex. It was my intention to (1) to address the infamous events that are etched in people’s minds and (2) to go beyond those events that are etched in the minds of the majority of Americans. For example, I suspect that the 1980 bombing of the train station in Bologna is etched in the minds of many Italians as deeply as the September 11th attacks are etched in the minds of contemporary Americans.

MEOW: Yes, the list I made is large, but it is far, far from complete. Terrorist acts have been around for a long time.

ABBY: Yes, three Gandhis were assassinated. India has had a long history of assassinations, bombing, and terrorist murders in its relatively short modern history.

SONSON: Yes, much too much. I fear it is something with which we shall live for many generations to come.

JODY: I am very happy for you and your brother. I know how long you have missed him and prayed for his safe return home.

PUNKMOM: I think you have hit upon something. The horrors people remember are those etched in their minds because they took place during a person’s life time. My youngest son, Rob, long had a fear of tornados. The memory of the 1976 tornado that struck Louisville hit when he was but one year old; yet, he lived through it and it impacted him personally, as, for example, the assassination of President Kennedy is not etched in his mind as it is etched in my mind.

THOMAS: I don’t believe that everyone has an historical reason to kill everybody else. I do believe that certain historical events infect the minds of a small minority of people and lead to direct and indirect retaliation. I remember another song that says “the Irish have long memories” that addressed the violence in Northern Ireland. I think it is the “long memories” that drives that small minority to murder and mayhem.

SQUIRL: You are most welcome. To remind Americans that we are not the only victims was one of my objectives in writing that post.
I agree that the Bush administration has used and misused the September 11th attacks, especially promoting alarm in the minds of the electorate, to get what they want. When I ask the great ethical question, “Who benefits,” of the September 11th attacks, the one answer I have is that only the American political right-wing has benefited: they are getting what they have long wanted, including a police state to control the citizens. Considering the history of the Bush family with the ben Laden family and Bush, Sr.’s relationship with the Taliban when he directed the C.I.A., I could easily create a conspiracy theory that is, for me, too bizarre and frightening to consider.

Again your comments are as good as your posts!

I'm glad Jody's brother is safely home. He seemed to be a Iraq a very long time.

Man's inhumanity to man- since Cain & Abel- it's hard to believe that anyone could hate that much.