Possibly a new low

I guess part of me knew right from the beginning that this was inevitable, but even four years later (especially four years later) I find it really repulsive: a TV drama about Flight 93.

It was bad enough when “Let's roll” was perverted into a kind of action-film one-liner during the country's whole chest-puffing These colors don't run phase (and even worse when several enterprising interests — including the Todd M. Beamer Foundation — sought to trademark the phrase in order to have exclusive rights to print it on T-shirts and caps).

But to turn the terrifying and ghastly last minutes of those passengers' lives into a dramatic thriller, to assume that America wants or needs to relive that day by watching as their families witness their deaths, all in the name of entertainment (or even worse, as a means of giving fading jingoistic sentiments a kick in the pants). . .

It takes bad taste to a whole new level.