We Will Never Forget

First of all, as commemorative attack slogans go, this one kind of sucks. Pearl Harbor at least gets "a date which will live in infamy", whereas for September 11th all we have is the fucking date. The Holocaust gets "Never again", which is a little more proactive than just not forgetting (and also used to excellent effect in last week's "Weeds" -- grandfather, Jew and all-around fuck-up played by Albert Brooks tells his grandson that genocide must Never Happen Again. When precocious grandson Shane informs him that in fact it has happened several times since the Holocaust, in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia, etc, he gets the very accurate response: "No, to Jews. It must never happen again to Jews.")

Anyway, to aid with the not forgetting, have a $20 silver plated bill:

With the (theoretical) Freedom Tower on the front and 1+2 WTC on the back, PLUS, as their ad on TV breathlessly informed me, it is the First Time Ever that a bill has used two separate numbers to add up to the denomination -- 9+11=20. It's just so, um, special.

This is brought to you by the National Collector's Mint, the same company that was already slapped for selling coins advertised "as having been minted from silver recovered from a bank vault "in the heart of ground zero"", when in fact they were just silver plated, and stating that they are the "first legally authorized government" coins, when the government in question is not, as one might assume, the US government, but is in fact "the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States possession with no authority to coin its own currency."