I'd say it's comparable to Pearl Harbor, 'cept that Pearl Harbor was a military target so in a way you can't blame the Japanse for wanting to attack it.
I grew up and still live in a small town in western PA, but two people I grew up with were very close to the events of that day. One popped up out of the subway when the WTC started collapsing and ran the other way, another friend was in the Pentagon when it got hit. Both are okay.
9/11 is also my birthday, so I get more agitated than most people because the party is kinda ruined for the rest of my life.
I love to challenge the Liberals by saying that when you heard four planes got hijacked and crashed on purpose, you knew who did it. You KNEW who it was. And they can't deny that.
If it was up to me, on 9/12 I'd have nuked Mecca every day for a week just to prove a point.
I got a thread locked on another board populated mostly by Lefty womenfolk over the weekend when I said I heard that Muslims were boycotting an airline or two, so those ought to be pretty safe airlines to fly. Just calling 'em as I see 'em.