desensitized

I absolutely believe peoole are desensitized....and worse yet it seems to be politically correct to be desensitized. I observed only a nominal amount of national pride being displayed. Not a lot of people wore red white and blue. I didn't notice more flags anywhere. There was an abundance of memorial pictures on Facebook. Perhaps patriotism has gone the way of the thank you note. Yes there is a difference between wounds healing and getting over it. The media has done a thorough job of making sure our young Americans have to do neither. I would like to see more images of the devastation, more sound clips as the news reporters grasped for words, more images and stories of what happened in the hours, days, weeks that followed. This can be done without center-staging the gore or glorifying the sucker-punch that knocked the wind out of our great country. But I do not know how this would be done without breeding anger, frustration, wariness, pride, strength, solidarity and all those other emotions so actively denounced in today's media. People are more sensitive to A-Rod's drama than the unprecedented, bold yet cowardly terrorist atrack within our borders. As for me and my house, we remember.