It was really interesting to read this. I was 19 when it happened, so I've wondered what it would have been like for someone younger, someone who would ultimately grow-up post-9/11.
wow, you were on my age, that's so weird to think about O_o. Yeah, it's weird, it's like I reacted years later, when I realized what it was. Like, it broke my heart, and made me sad, which it hadn't really done before, because I was too young. I also remember growing up with all these references to that day, and I never really noticed what changed after the attack.
In my town, the change was immediate and obvious. I lived next to a major military base. Everything was locked down. People I would have normally seen that day weren't allowed to come into town. I had two classes that day and I remember my art teacher walking in, writing on the board "Tell me how you feel and then you can go," and then sitting down with his head in his hands. Most of the class was missing. The rest of us drew or wrote or just left because we felt nothing
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My experience was nothing compared to what many other people went through. I think I had what was probably a typical reaction and experience for a lot of Americans who didn't live in New York or personally know anyone involved.
I read the accounts of what happened from people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and John Hodgman, and just can't imagine what that must have been like.
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I didn't really feel anything beyond that numbness until years later, when my high school science teacher's son died in Iraq.
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I read the accounts of what happened from people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and John Hodgman, and just can't imagine what that must have been like.
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