Sept 11 all over again

Its that time of the year here in the US. The day that changed the world (atleast here) ..Sept 11 is coming up...

I managed to visit the World Trade Center site today. I do not know if it is always the case or specially decked for the day. There was this photo exhibition that presented different facets of the disaster...As I was looking at all of this and looking at all the TV channels here going on about '5 years and after' (probably even NDTV and CNN-IBN are doing this back home), a lot of thoughts went off in my head....

Why is it so much simpler for us to accept disaster? Mumbai has had many such catastrophes in the last decade. Still I cant think of any memorial for the victims or the public even stopping to think about the unfortunate victims. In the US, the media and the political machinery ensures the public dont put behind the event.

I guess this event sure shocked a nation that had become complacent and arrogant about its own superiority. It was unfortunate that this happened with the lives of so many innocents being sacrificed. However, maybe we do need a machinery within our country to give the respect to the dead....we are almost at the other end of the spectrum...