Then again, I've never once clicked on a sponsored link, and therefore merely leech off the service and bring no revenue to the company, and as thus they should not care what I think.
I think people get too wrapped up in "memorials" and symbolism. Certain events can become the basis of a cult. Instead of recongizing something for what it is (a really F'ed up criminal action that our border policy allowed to happen and knew would eventually happen), we see it as some kind tie that binds some peopel together .... almost like an organized religion.
20,000 Americans are murdered yearly. Islamists are pretty far down the list of actual threats to the average American. How many of us commemorate the other 17,000? Should Google keep a running tally on their homepage, which is reset every year? How about a yellow ribbon for each person ... until the page has 20,000 ribbons in December?
Just live your life and don't worry about what little graphic Google does/doesn't put under their little textbox. You'll be happier. Seriously, you will.
And I had a relative in the Pentagon that partially lost their hearing, and HE doesn't want to hear (no pun intended) about frigging 9/11 anymore either. Nobody forgot it. Unless you are Momento, how could you forget it? And if you did forget it, a banner probably won't help as you would forget it the day after.
He doesn't need a stinking Google banner to remind him that he narrowly missed getting plowed by an airplane. He's moved on with his life. Seriously, what's the point? Oh yeah, 4 years ago 9/11 happened! There. Now what?
The border is still open. That is what should scare you.
Well said, I agree with you.