Excluding 9-11-01, what do you think the greatest American tragedy is?

Question

for people that are unsure, I'm using "greatest" in the context of "most influential" or something that had a huge impact.

Answer 1

Electing George W Bush.

Seriously.

Answer 2

Losing the Vietnam war.

Answer 3

Accepting a seat at the United Nation, it was tried once before during Woodrow Wilson's administration, but Congress had a brain at that time and kept us out of the League of Nations (the precursor to the U.N.). Another tragedy is taking the U.S. Dollar off the Gold Standard, and also turning over control of currency to the Federal Reserve, which isn't a Government Agency, but a private one.

Answer 4

Slavery and/or the Civil War.

Answer 5

The manipulaiton of the elections that put Bush in office.

Answer 6

hmmm...

the American civil war lost a lot of lives.  Slavery ended so that was a good thing.  

The Depression era and the "dustbowl" in Oklahoma etc back in that time was devistating for many families.

I think one of our tragedies is that people now days forget that this country was founded by people seeking religious freedom, freedom from the Church of England, to gain freedom to worship God the way they wanted to, and now days people either forget God or they give others c**p for believing in what they do believe, forgetting why people left England to start this country in the first place.

Another tragedy is that too many Americans are overly spoiled, get what they want NOW, instead of having to work for it.  We're creating brats.   Not everyone is like this but too many people are unthankful for what they have.

sorry I am tired and not being completely clear. haha

Pass the pot of coffee.

Answer 7

titanic

Answer 8

Liberalism and all of it's by-products we see today.

And yeah...the Bush answer is really worn out.

Answer 9

Pearl Harbor, probably.

Answer 10

letting george dubbya and his brother steal the election

Answer 11

Letting Shaq into acting....

Answer 12

The American Civil War. Nothing is as tragic as brother killing brother and a country tearing itself apart.

Answer 13

The Manhatten Project - The creation of the Atom Bomb.

Not only a tragedy for America but for everyone who has lived across the world to this day.

Answer 14

The fact that for a country entirely made up of immigrants, that was based on the principal of freedom and against unfair taxes. There is so much animosity toward today's immigrants, freedoms are being lost daily, and people are being taxed on tax return money already taxed once (just one unfair example)

Answer 15

Roe v. Wade

Answer 16

The rise to power of the Bush Dynasty and their motley crew of neo-cons

Answer 17

George Bush.

Answer 18

Ignoring poverty and ignorance.

Answer 19

The Civil War, brother against brother on our own American soil had to be the greatest tragedy. People at least were holding together in the Great Depression.. in the Civil War families were spilit apart by politics..

Answer 20

Political correctness.

Answer 21

the civil war

Answer 22

The years between 1859 - 1864.  The time known as the American Civil War.  No other time in American History has had as much influence on todays society.  The only other event I would say would be the American Revolution, the forging of America.

Hope that helps!

Answer 23

When Notorious BIG was Killed

Answer 24

George Bush. d**k Cheney.

Answer 25

Every single School tragedy (Columbine, Virginia Tech,Jenna Six). So young, so sad.

Answer 26

My paycheck...

Answer 27

The assisnation of Kennedy

Answer 28

Adopting multiculturalism.

Answer 29

The depression I guess.

Answer 30

VH canceling there concert. lol. But seriously I would have to say the civil war perhaps if not then the attack on Pearl Harbor