Adam over at Throwing Things posted today about the 20th anniversary of the showing of The Day After. I wasn't allowed to watch it (and I've found that most of my friends were also banned from the viewing) because my parents thought it would be too traumatic. My question is this - would a movie like that be shown today? Post 9/11? I don't think so - we've become too careful. We have removed images of the World Trade Center from movies and tv shows that were filmed prior to that day. They delayed the release of at least two movies, Big Trouble with Tim Allen and Collateral Damage with Arnold the Governator. We don't want to have these discussions with our children, our spouses, our friends. But it's all very real. I live in Oklahoma and work very close to the Murrah Building which was bombed April 19, 1995. Perhaps it's because now I'm an adult and I have my own family that I think the threat we are under today is so much greater than the threat of nuclear war in the 80's. Back then I thought there were rules, now it seems, there aren't any.