Thinking about it with this thread, I think this song ironically did the most to make me think about 9/11 as a concept. As a child, I saw the smoke for a week waiting for the bus. I knew folks who had to walk 10 miles home because the bridges were closed. My younger siblings were with a babysitter in Queens and my parent's were thoroughly freaked out.

Yet I grew up with a war on TV that was obviously lopsided. How can you see the permanent image of a super-soldier with crumbling ruins behind him and not thing "hey this war doesn't seem to be doing much".

The yearly song and dance with 1000s of little flags to remember always struck me as absurd and Jeff Rosenstock put it to some great words.

"We can’t forget 3,000 lives

We got the flag to prove it

We got the sticker and the bracelet

We got a list of specials and we set the DVR so we won’t miss it

We waste no time

I got the fever for a feature

A new target for a campaign speech

And a couple cents off at the pump tonight

You want the action hit of the summer

Where Nick Cage really learns something

Or the made-for-TV suspense-thriller

Where the pimp from Taxi Driver is attacking Clinton’s credibility?

Or how about some amateur footage of southern Virginians crying to the camera

And shopping at Rite-Aid, buying flags to translate what they gotta prove on this year’s anniversary

We’re mourning the loss, oh what can you do

But make the evening news logo red white and blue?

I got the fever for a feature

A new target for a campaign speech

And another moot point on the floor tonight

I got the fever for a feature

A holiday for a high school teacher

And a couple cents off at the pump tonight"