Where were you during 9/11

High school sci class.

I remember it very well, We just heard first tower was hit and we had a loud speaker mention it. So we all put the tvs onto news, and second we put channel on 2nd plane hit, we all thought it was a freak thing and a replay...then they said omg a second plane hit.

It really was a hard thing to see and the worst part of that day (unlike many local areas we stayed in all day not sent home early) was I will never for my life forget this, a group of fire fighters just looking with 1000 yard stares and tired, getting new air packs and water soaked in dust going back into one of the towers and then seeing it fall live.

It was probably one of the first times even though thru TV saw people's faces and had this loose connection of them as a person, then knowing they passed.

I know a lot of shit posting theories memes but, 9/11 was a really rough day for many people. I also really remember 9/12 opie and Anthony (now lol cows go figure) had a call in show and just let people talk, was really funny and healing as well as a good vent.
 
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I remember telling my teacher "meh whatever" after the day it happened and she flipped her shit on me.

On hindsight I didn't understand what it actually meant....for all of us.
 
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One of the things that amazes me about 9/11 is that for my emotions it's mainly a funny event and something you make jokes of. And I think it's really interesting because it shows how much of this "society concept" in which we feel we live is created because of group learning.

Let me explain, In 9/11 I was young, but had a working knowledge of mathematics (could add and substract) and bit of knowledge of the world. (lmao, it was when as kids we learnt from books) So I knew about the Pyramids, the Collosus of Rodhes and I even had a maritime book with really cool illustrations that showed that boats could be resurfased, which in my young mind was the coolest thing ever. I think I also knew every planet from Mercury to Pluto and I knew we reached the moon.

But the TWC? I think I only saw it once in the Simpsons episode and I didn't get the joke. I also didn't follow the news because I was a kid and the PS1 was my life.

So when 9/11 happened, and I remember that clearly, I could see in my parents faces that it was a big deal, but I didn't feel any reason why. "Terrorism" "Al-Qaeda", "Massive Cassualty events" "geopolitics" were concepts that I had no other things to compare to. So as it was happening live I was felling like "okay it's bad... I guess."

With no deep socially learned concepts of what the past was (or real ones because I wasn't alive then) it's hard to grasp the severity. I mean, people died and I was watching them fall, but I knew from what little news I watched that people died in car and plane crashes all the time, so wasn't this a bit like that just a bit worse?

Anyways, as I grew up and watched the documentaries and learned more about society I understood the severity. But going back to the main point that was also when the internet also began being edgy about 9/11 jokes and putting one in was being legit edgy and funny. So yeah. I have more emotional memories of 9/11 the joke than the event.

As an aside, perhaps we if we were ignorant about how everything worked in the world and just lived our lives quietly isolated as much as possible from that knowledge, modern politics wouldn't feel as terrible, but I guess that ship has long sailed.
 
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So when 9/11 happened, and I remember that clearly, I could see in my parents faces that it was a big deal, but I didn't feel any reason why. "Terrorism" "Al-Qaeda", "Massive Cassualty events" "geopolitics" were concepts that I had no other things to compare to. So as it was happening live I was felling like "okay it's bad... I guess."
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That seriousness gave the worst people in politics (neocons) political ammo for the next decade. If you weren't sufficiently SHOCKED by 9/11 and how it CHANGED EVERYTHING it was considered offensive. Even the most hysterical libs had to pretend they loved cops for a couple of years.
 
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Was home sick watching Jerry Springer when the show changed. Saw it happen live on the television. Thought it was a fever dream at first.
 
I was at home. My then-spouse called from work and told me to turn on CNN. This was after the first plane hit and at the time they thought it was some sort of accident. I was watching the live feed when the second plane hit and I remember the shock I felt at the realization that this was, in fact, intentional. It's funny how I used to regularly visit gore sites with no issue but seeing that plane hit live is what fucked me up.
 
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First here's some context for when I was waking up that morning


September 10th, my brothers and I were looking through a telescope my dad just bought. A plane had flown by and we thought it was a UFO. (Keep in mind I was living in Seattle so nothing regarding the other planes). We thought this would make the news next morning, according to my older brother. Shortly after I went to bed.

Next day, I slept in slightly longer than usual. As soon as I woke up. I rushed downstairs to see if they saw the news that a UFO had been sighted. My mom told me to shush and I turned around to face the TV, one of the towers was crumbling. I didn't go to school that day.

I didn't understand the severity of the situation until another year or two, and I didn't realize how much it fucked everyone up until 2005 or 2006.
 
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Playing a rental copy Tony hawk's pro skater with my brother trying to get a last couple hours in before it got returned later that day while we were at school. Then my mom came home from work freaking out about planes crashing into buildings and shit and made us turn off the game so she could turn on the news.

Then at school later that day they babbled about some country called Afghanistan and some cartoonish sounding mother fucker named Osama bin laden and some made up sounding shit called terrorists and about some buildings called the world trade center that were apparently important or some shit but I really just did not give a fuck.

It was kinda cool watching the planes fly into the buildings though.
 
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I was in grade school. Pissed me off for a long time how everyone expected me to have the correct patriotic response to 9/11 when I was barely aware of what happened. Now for the zoomers it's a literal "before I was born" historical event. I wonder if they're still scolding children for not dropping to their knees and sucking Dubya's dick.
 
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