twenty-seven years and one million words
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The kamikaze museum in Kagoshima is in no way the most depressing thing I've ever encountered. Did you know that those pilots were 15- and 17-year-olds?
In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.
—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009