September 11 -- what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know

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[VegasVic]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - 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.

The Post telephone survey was carried out July 21-24 among 1,002 randomly selected adults. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

[samadams2000]

I knew then why the Gatling gun was invented.

[NautiNurse]

Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

[IronJack]

We have successfully created a culture with no historical continuity, no sense of its past, even a past as recent as 2001. In order to be able to imprint new memes on every generation, the Left has to erase the existing cultural identity. From the looks of it, they are succeeding.

Who thought on Sept. 12, 2001 that this day would come?

[Adiemus]

This article is a joke, right? If not, then I am deeply ashamed of my fellow Americans.

[msnimje]

It is the same year that New York was featured on the Quarter in the States Quarter series.

[MNJohnnie]

Well that explains the 30% hard cored Democrat Base in this country.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Looks like the campaign by the MSM to pretend 9/11 never happened by not showing any images of the attacks that day are paying off.

[river rat]

Nah, they're part of that permanent 45% of the perpetually "stuck on stupid" mob that votes Democrat....

They are the result of the drug and free love 60's/70's assholes in charge of "pubic education" (intentional).

They implemented "No child left behind" as "No child's behind left alone".....

They dumbed down at least the last 3 decades of kids -- most of whom don't know their ass from a hole in the ground..

Semper Fi

[stylin19a]

and you didn't even show your work....u r a god !

looks like 285 out of 300 were *ahem* elderly ?

[MNJohnnie]

I knew then why the Gatling gun was invented.,p> I knew then why God gave the Christians the Cluster Bomb Unit and Fuel Air Expolosives.

[GeronL]

LOL... these are that same 1/3 of Americans who are certified loons

[GunnyHartman]

Man! I didn't know there were that many Minority Studies/Art History Majors in this country.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

So 96% were over 55 years of age.

[woofie]

Its next year isnt it?

[kcmt01]

My own recolletion of that day is really wierd. I woke up before the alarm went off (We live in Mountain TimeZone) because someone yelled "America will wake up from Her Complacency", only nobody was there. No radio or anything. I fixed breakfast for Wifey, and she went to work. On a whim, I turned on the TV and the first plane had just hit the first tower.

[mewzilla]

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.

Snort. This poll is worthless.

[GeronL]

Who were the 5% who couldn't identify the month and day of the September 11 attacks! Ouch

Thankfully these people don't vote. Of course they also don't get up to go to the bathroom.

[SandRat]

Well that accounts for the base of the Democrat Party.

[dalereed]

"Who's buried in Grant's tomb?"

I always heard that it was his white horse.

[Cyclopean Squid]

Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

William Jennings Bryan?