9/11

i think 9/11 is a really interesting phenomena in america while yes, many people died in a meaningless attack, it is nothing even in the ballpark of global terrorist attack casualties we hold it in such momentous regard because before then America was seemingly untouchable it really highlights one of the core issues of Americans, and that's our perception of American exceptionalism

I think the real kicker is that 9/11 almost certainly arose out of conditions that the Military-Industrial complex created. Wasn't Bin Laden trained and funded by the US and Saudi Arabia as part of the Mujahideen insurgency in the Soviet-Afghan war? It really does feel like a senseless cycle of pointless violence that no-one is ever going to really work to understand how to properly address.

I remember the day. My mom had just started nursing school and I was inbetween highschool and college, taking IT courses for Cisco Networking at a trade school. We were listening to the radio on our way to class and knew something was going on by the news but didn't get into it until we got to class where all the TVs were going. They ended up dismissing us at noon because after the tower, there was the pentagon attack. They didn't know if there were going to be anymore, so best to send everyone home. No work was going to be done that day. Everyone was glued to the TV.

The next year, 2002, I took my first plane trip. Went to DC to visit my brother and sister in law. She was there training. I remember flying over the Pentagon and seeing their missle ATVs set up right outside the gate, both loaded with 6 missles in defense.

Growing up i can honestly say i had no recollection of this ever happening. I was probably too little at the time to understand....but i do remember having to always do a pledge and moment of silence in elementary.

I was 10 at the time. I can remember walking home from school and hearing two guys saying something about a plane hitting a building. I was thinking of a small prop-plane like a Cessna smacking into a pizza joint or something. I come home and my mom has the event on TV. My first question was "What the hell happened?". From there I decided to take the British "Keep Calm, Carry On" approach to it. In the following days, the teachers were saying that we were safe. I had to be a dick and say, "Obviously, why would they want to crash a plane into a school? This place isn't worth that much." Earned me a detention, which was standard for me at the time.

I remember being around 12 and I was in math class at the time when our teacher turned on the news in front of the class which I thought was really wierd. When I saw a replay of the first plane crash I was wondering how somebody could fly a plane that badly that they didn't see that huge building. It wasn't until class was dismissed and I went home to turn on the news that I saw that a second plane hit. That kinda signaled America going to shit. We had it easy as Americans in the 90s.