7/25/2023 0 Comments I rate it 9 11![]() ![]() Not surprisingly, 9/11 ranked somewhat higher among respondents in New York and Washington, where 51% and 44%, respectively, said the attacks had a big effect on their own personal lives. That was the leading response, but a quarter (24%) cited a more personal life event such as a marriage, birth, death or health problem in the family, and 30% said nothing major had happened in their lives over the past year or so. But when asked if they could think of anything that had happened over the past year or so that had a big effect on their own lives, half as many (38%) mentioned the attacks. ![]() 11 was a huge event for the nation, relatively few say that their own lives have undergone major changes, and many have experienced other events in their lives over the past year that had a bigger effect on them personally.Įight-in-ten Americans volunteered the 9/11 attacks had the biggest effect on the nation over the past year. By comparison, as many Americans age 65 and older say 9/11 was less serious than Pearl Harbor as say it was more serious. 11 attacks as more important than Pearl Harbor as say they were less serious (40% to 10%). Among Americans under age 50, four times as many rate the Sept. Younger people are the most likely to rate 9/11 as bigger than Pearl Harbor. Residents of New York and Washington have the same impression as the rest of the nation on this question. Today, just four-in-ten (37%) hold this view, while more (43%) say the attacks were about equal in historical importance. 12, fully two-thirds of Americans said the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were more serious than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. By comparison, in 1999, the Pew Research Center found that, among those old enough to remember, 90% could recall where they were or what they were doing when they first heard about the assassination of JFK, and 85% remembered first hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor.īut the public's historical perspective on the attacks has changed over the past year. Virtually all Americans (97%) can recall precisely where they were or what they were doing the moment they heard about the attacks. Women felt emotionally affected more severely than men 74% of women nationally say they were moved a great deal, compared to 58% of men, a pattern which was mirrored in New York and, to a lesser extent, Washington. areas say they were moved a great deal by the attacks. Fewer than one-in-ten say the events did not move them much.ĭemonstrating the national scope of the tragedy, the emotional impact was only slightly greater in the targeted cities than elsewhere nearly three-quarters in the New York City and Washington D.C. Nationally, two-thirds say the attacks had a great emotional impact on them, and another quarter say it had some effect. 11 attacks affected nearly all Americans in some way. ![]()
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