Not since the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, has a date lived more in infamy than September 11, 2001. And yet, according to this poll, nearly a third of Americans can’t name the year the attacks occurred:
Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks, according to Wednesday’s edition of the newspaper.But when asked what year, 30 percent could not give a correct answer.
Of that group, six percent gave an earlier year, eight percent gave a later year, and 16 percent admitted they had no idea whatsoever.
This memory black hole is essentially the problem of the older crowd: 48 percent of those who did not know were between the ages of 55 and 64, and 47 percent were older than 65, according to the poll.
Be afraid.
The percentage of people who think that there were WMD’s in Iraq is increasing rather than decreasing. It’s obvious that the people who the poll takers reach are not tuned into what is going on in the world. Perhaps it’s because they are technologically challenged and don’t have caller id, so they answer their phones!