From: Bilmon [http://www.billmon.org/]
A Date That Will Not Live in Infamy
The bad news:
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.
The good news:
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. (emphasis added)
So only 5% of all Americans (one in 20) were unable to remember that the 9/11 attacks happened on 9/11. Whew. That's a relief. For a moment I thought we were a nation of idiots and amnesia patients.
I wonder how many of them know who's buried in Grant's tomb?
Update - 15 August 2006: May be I was wrong, may be the USA are no longer a superpower. See this list: http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp
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