What was it like to be alive during this?
>>529423275I was 7 years old. I remember they were talking about it on every TV channel all day. It really pissed me off because it prevented me from watching my favorite dinosaur documentary.
I was 8 at the time and I legit don't remember it at allwas probably too busy playing my GBA
>>529423275You'll get to experience the same feel first-hand in a short while.
>>529423275I saw this happen live at 13 it was pretty surreal, school even wheeled in tvs into the classrooms so we could all watch and not miss a thing.
Got sent to school with a portable radio because no smart phones. Other than that, pretty normal day. Next months not normal, everyone tense and mad. At the end of the school year we had an engineering contest and my team did 9/11 as a theme and everyone cried. Planes flying overhead were scary for a while but I didn't live next to a national monument or a city or a military base so I got over that
>>529423275It was awesome because I got picked up from school early and got back home to continue playing donkey kong 64
>>529423275Kino
>>529423275I was in 8th grade. As it was happening we were all making jokes about it. My best online friend lived near ground zero and his high school was used to identify bodies. For most of the country things went back to normal within a day and we knew some kind of war was about to happen. They were naming bin Laden almost immediately. Even as a kid I knew this was going to change things in the US for the worse.
>>529423275It was traumatizing. But i was just a kid.
>>529423275I was 14, it was pretty shocking at the time. Everybody called it a modern Pearl Harbor because that was all we could relate it to. Everybody wanted to fuck up arabs in retaliation.
>>529423275Oh and I forgot all planes being grounded. This was before all the advancements that made jet engines way quieter so it was noticeably and oddly quiet outside with all the air traffic gone. Kinda like how the world got still during COVID.
>>529423275Traumatizing. I remember browsing the channels around noon to see how many switched over to news coverage. This one always stuck out to me,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvvaGKiDhh0because it's like, "Wow, even HGTV?". I stared at the purple flower for a half hour listening to the music as the gravity of what happened hit me.
I was 20 at the time and nearing the end of my first year in college. I was awoken by the sound of my friends banging on my door and my cellphone ringing like crazy -- I had skipped class to sleep in that day and awoken to chaos. Everyone was freaking out and asking me if my family was okay. Apparently "terrorists were flying planes into buildings" and one of the planes happened to crash in my remote Western PA hometown of all places, which had a population of a few hundred -- what the fuck?! Of all places...My 13-years-younger brother was in school at the time and he said he felt the building shake. Funnily enough, two of my friends saw the smoke and hightailed it to the crash site to check it out -- as soon as they got there, federal agents were already on sight. Keep in mind Shanksville basically had only one cop and the nearest town was a 20 minute drive away, yet somehow federal agents were already on sight by the time they got there in like 5 minutes from impact. They saw nothing to indicate a downed plane, either.Me, being a young, dumb 20-year-old, bought into the patriotic "FREEDOM WAS ATTACKED" psyop and even changed my MSN Messenger icon to an American flag that said "God Bless America" (cringe) and in the years that followed the whole war and Bush Jr just turned into meme fodder.Years later there was all kinds of shit indicating that it was an inside job, which made 100% sense -- I remember watching the "Painful Deceptions" documentary. I didn't know anything about jews back then, really -- only A Wyatt Mann cartoons that my friend showed me in highschool, but I had NO idea how deep the ZOG rabbit whole went until my eyes opened a little over 10 years ago. Now I've got memes on the ADL website and have been cursing and willing the destruction of our evil masters into existence using meme magick and my own pneumatic powers. Now we live in a world where EVERYONE regardless of age, race, or political affiliation sees them for what they are.
>>529423275Gay. Imagine covid but for oorah murrica bullshit and you're the only one not buying it.
>>529423275I remember /pol/ lost its shit
>>529423275I was there, I knew the end of what was had begun
I came home and wanted to watch Dragonball on RTL2 and they cancelled the program because of that shit. That day I became an antisemite.
>>529424577What do you mean
>>529423275I was in grade 3 living in Barrie, Ontario my teacher wheeled in a tv and we saw the second plane hit. Im pretty sure it was live coverage but my memory could be hazy, the PA system came on with some 'oldest and only, report to the office if you need to call your parents and round up your siblings..' we were sent home for the day and really didn't understand the severity of it yet. If im being honest I didn't even know the towers existed before 9/11 and the world really did change after.
>>529424091Im the same age as you. My mom worked at the Toronto Stock Exchange at the time, and was pretty traumatized after she came home. Hundreds of people that her and her colleagues emailed or otherwise conducted business with internationally were killed. They left work early that day.>>529423275As a kid, everyone's "cool older brother" suddenly wanted to join the military and kill sand niggers. Many of them did and went to Afghanistan. It's easier to tell you how life was significantly different before 9/11. Far more hopeful and innocent, and it wasn't just because I was a child. There was a genuine level of friendliness, community, and an understanding of the world that doesn't seem to exist anymore.the period between the fall of the Soviet Union and 9/11 was unironically a mini golden age that was stolen from us.>>529427391>didn't understand the severity of it yet. If im being honest I didn't even know the towers existed before 9/11 and the world really did change after.Yes
>>529423275Don't worry, at the rate shit is going in the next 10 to 15 years you'll find out. Though there will be some minor differences in nuance depending on who's administration is around to pretend they couldn't stop it.
>>529423275Iranian brown shitskin posted this
>>529423275I was in 2nd grade. Didn't really understand what all the adults were freaking out about and didn't really care.
>>529423275I played couonter strike with my homies when this happened, when it happened everybody rushed to the tv, crazy times. I bet it was crazier for americans
>>529426020/pol/ didn't exist (or 4chan) thenEpstein had moot create /pol/ in 2011
>>529423275A few random tid-bits:> the human need for new information was such that many of us didn't turn off the TV news for days/weeks on end> It's hard to describe the unlimited rage felt by most Americans> The attack only worked because of a change in the way highjackings were handled. Once people figured it out (mid attack) the tables turned on the attackers> It was strange to walk outside, look at the sky, and realize that it was the first time since the Wright Brothers that there were zero planes flying over The United States> both the democrats and republicans were united in the believe that someone needed to be bombed back into the stone age. There were disagreements on who, but everyone wanted blood
My mom took me home from school and we watched the second plane hit the towers on TV
>>529423275>wake up in the morning>crazy right wing grandmother says I can't go to school because America is under attack>go upstairs and play Starseige Tribes all dayit was pretty good desu
>>529423275The beginning for newfag noticers.
