Jonathan B. of the Gamebang Blog wrote us in about a curious Xbox 360 College Tour that occurred at his university on the fifth anniversary of September 11th... right across from a Red Cross Blood Drive.

The Xbox 360 college tour started today at my campus right across a 9/11 blood drive. With girls in skimpy clothes and free shirts not supporting the blood drive but, the xbox 360 and mountain dew. Who starts anything fun on 9/11? I wrote a open letter to the Xbox 360 team on how crappy they are for doing this on my blog and I'm sending the same words to the opinion section of my college newspaper. I would be really grateful if you showed this letter on your site or at least told they many fans like myself ofKotaku how dumb the Xbox 360 Marketing team is.

Although I sympathize with Jonathan on the aspect of setting up the tour across from a blood drive (what a bonehead move), I have to respond to his assertion that it's somehow in bad taste to do anything fun or celebratory on September 11th.

The culture of fear we live in just has to stop. There's exactly two groups of people who profit from fear: terrorists and politicians. An eternal day of mourning and depression isn't anything the victims of September 11th would have wanted; it's what those who would like us to give up our liberties want.

You want to stick it to Al Qaeda? You want to pay tribute to the thousands of Americans who died in the World Trade Center? Then celebrate how wonderful it is to be an American on September 11th. And I can't think of anything more American than sitting back, sipping a beer and playing some video games while scantly-clad women prance sexily about you. That's the sort of thing that causes Al Qaeda aneurysms. Florian Eckhardt

The Xbox 360 Marketing Team is Incredibly Stupid and maybe a little curious about same sex relationships [Gamebang]