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A 9/11 memorial.
Made out of coke cans.
At a Wal-mart.
In Florida.
With a “sorry not sorry” after they took it down.
Have we reached Peak America yet?
(Please?)
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Oh shit…
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I went to work that day, too. It was one of the final rehearsals for a professional dinner theatre production. I was one of the very few who showed up, so rehearsal was canceled.
The production really wasn’t completely ready to go on for opening weekend (not due to 9/11, some performers simply weren’t ready), so the director posted an ad in the paper saying (roughly) that due to the recent attacks it would be inappropriate to open our comedy show this coming weekend, but we will open by the next weekend! God Bless America.
This display is nothing.
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Were you offended? 
It’s fitting - Rember was used as name for clinical trials with methylthioninium chloride as Alzheimer treatment.
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It’s a good thing I am not presently in the US.
My first thought upon seeing that picture was which Coke Zero to remove to cause an accurate historical reenactment.
But this is why it’s generally a bad idea to let Europeans near displays of American patriotism. We just don’t get it.
I remember attending a Rodeo event in Cody, WY as a tourist during my teenage years. There was a significant percentage of European tourists in the audience. The announcer specifically welcomed the foreign tourists in the audience and respectfully asked us to stand for the American anthem out of respect for local traditions. I exchanged a few amused looks with the French tourists next to me, and stood for an anthem the first - and so far, the last - time in my life.
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My reaction would be better described as “astonished”. Also “abashed”, as I didn’t have a camera handy to capture the wondrous sight.
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You can have my Jarritos when you pry it from my cold dead hands, you monster!
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At 11 in the morning, we had a manager yelling at us for watching the news and not working.
2 days later my roommate was complaining that the TV wouldn’t shut up about it.
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Did it taste good?
Nope.
A 9/11 memorial made of cases of beer (Budweiser’s “America”, naturally) inside a Florida Wal-Mart, situated between an in-store McDonalds with signs offering the new Donald Trump-endorsed Yuuuuge Mac (Three times the size of a puny Big Mac! It’s what makes 'Muricans grow!) and a display (with theme “Defend your piece of America!”) highlighting the guns 'n ammo portion of the sporting goods department. According to the Wal-Mart manager no apologies, real or artificial, are necessary or are offered for that display because “First Amendment!”
That’s approaching Peak 'Murica status.
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Oh sure, I guess.
On 9/12 I went to the Home Depot. In the parking lot was a wrestling coach with “USA-ANY QUESTIONS?” written in the back window of his 4X4 Dodgeram.
Now maybe he is just unusually well versed in our version of representative democracy… it’s possible, right?
Maybe Wal-Mart meant “honor the first responders” or “fix the VA” or “support the development of alternative energy.” But they didn’t.
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No smartphone? 
It’s lacking something, though…where are the bullet-riddled black people?
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We will never forget the brave sacrifice Miracle Mattress made so heroic Americans could pay lower prices to sleep soundly on beds filled with the springs and foam rubber of freedom.
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It sounds to me like you are projecting.
“USA - Any Questions?” Doesn’t sound anti-anything, Sounds Pro-America.
Certainly there are people who fit the caricature in your head, but not everyone with a patriotic bummer sticker or a “never forget” avatar on 9/11 fit your caricature.
So… the guy in the parking lot was unusually well versed in our version of representative democracy. That’s good to hear.
It looked like nationalism to me. I’m glad to be wrong.
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I have no idea about that person you saw. He could be the World’s Biggest Bigot.
My point is not everyone who says “remember the blank” (9/11, Alamo, Maine, Pearl Harbor, 5th of November) doesn’t necessarily equate to “I hate blank.”
It does, however, correlate very, very strongly. Particularly when it’s displayed for no apparent reason on the back of a private vehicle.
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