Acknowledged on the Turks. I just know from being stationed in Germany, Mainz and larger cities around Budingen had a large Turkish population. Not nearly so in Baumholder. I assumed it was because of WW2. My bad.
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But it is really strange that 7 years after 911, it is still treated as a national trauma:
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I think it's because Iraq has a direct correlation with 9/11 so it's still very much on peoples minds. Americans are emotional about such things. It's part of our makeup. I know that Munich had a impact for a good while in Germany.
A small number is a tragedy, a large number is a statistic. (A quote stolen from Stalin more or less).