Not true at all. Here is the loss of life from Pearl Harbor:MeMelYup wrote:A good article but I think the author is wrong in the assumption that aggression is being educated out of society. I know he is wrong about Terrorism.
"Terrorism doesn't account for many deaths. Sept. 11 was just off the scale. There was never a terrorist attack before or after that had as many deaths. What it does is generate fear,"
What was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941? A terrorist act, or an act of war, it was both and so was 9/11. There were many more lives lost at Pearl Harbor than on 9/11.
US Navy: 2,008 KIA
USMC: 109 KIA
US Army: 218 KIA
Civilians: 68
Total: 2,403
Here is the loss of life from 9/11:
TOTAL COUNT 2,976
minus foreigners - 236
AMERICANS 2,740 (still higher than Pearl Harbor, even after subtracting the deaths of foreign nationals.... which is a stupid and pointless exercise, since they are just as dead and murdered as the American dead)
Of the total dead, 246 were on board the aircraft, 2,606 were at the WTC, and 125 were at the Pentagon.
Of the 2,403 killed at Pearl Harbor 68 were civilians. Of the 2,976 killed on 9/11, 2,921 were civilians.
You really shouldn't try to diminish those deaths, or the impact that the attack had on the nation. It isn't seemly.