[linda_22003]

I think your last sentence is correct. The rest of your post shows your dexterity at backpedaling.

[George W. Bush]

I think your last sentence is correct. The rest of your post shows your dexterity at backpedaling.

There are plenty of other events that recede from people's minds. The situtation in the South before the civil rights movement. The Holocaust.

After a while, people do just move on. And I do still think that for many people, Katrina is a larger factor in their minds than 9/11 is these days.