Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

letter to the editor:

Sept. 11 attacks are incomparable

I agree with the writer of the Sept. 4 letter “Remember another Sept. 11 tragedy” that the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a tragic event culminating in a great number of murdered civilians. But please be fair.

It’s wrong to casually mention the people who “died at the World Trade Center” instead of saying they were murdered, just like the victims of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Also, compare the number of deaths in each tragedy to the U.S. population at the time. It was one death for every 240,000 people in 1857 compared with one death for every 94,000 in 2001.

Numbers aside, what effect — short term, long term, national, international, personal, political or religious — did the Utah tragedy have in comparison to what Sept. 11, 2001, has had and will have?

Globally, lives are changed forever. Please, no more 9/11s!

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