9.11.2007

Remember the Anthrax?

Atrios takes time out from September 11 to remind us about the anthrax junk mail attacks:


What I just learned from CNN:




"...6 years after 9/11 there have been no terror attacks here in the United States."




I've long been fascinated by the erasure of the anthrax attacks - which, in their own way, freaked out the country more than 9/11 did* - from our collective memory.




*People object when I suggest this, but while the 9/11 attacks were of course The Big Ones, anthrax was this creepy shit which was KILLING US THROUGH THE MAIL. While most people didn't expect a plane to fly into their building, the anthrax attacks created a heightened sense of OMIGOD THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ME. 9/11 was terrible, but the anthrax attacks were terrifying to people.



17 people were infected and five people died from antrax poisoning over the course of several weeks beginning September 18, 2001! More here. The crime remains unsolved and has largely faded from public memory. Why is that, exactly?

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