I wonder how a Vietnam vet felt on 9/11? Or a WW2 survivor, for that matter. I don't think it's a matter of US / non-US, but rather generational. It's one thin

I wonder how a Vietnam vet felt on 9/11? Or a WW2 survivor, for that matter. I don't think it's a matter of US / non-US, but rather generational. It's one thing to be aware of war and death, and another to see dead bodies in the street. And it's not just the 3000 people that died, but the millions who saw the destruction first-hand, and the hundreds of thousands that lost family and friends that day. For me, the question is not "why do Americans feel 9/11 so viscerally" but rather "why don't we feel the same way when similar events occur around the world?"