Ow. There's not much more I can say about this except than, well, 'ow'. You're the first one I meet who was so closely involved in those happening, and it's interesting to hear your version. 'Interesting' as in 'train wreck ahead' interesting, but you know what I mean. And I can perfectly understand how it can affect your entire life, cliché or not.
Aw. ^^; Thank you for not making fun of me for being really cliche, haha.
Yeah. :( Our town was very affected by it because a large portion of our population commute to NYC (it's very easily reachable by express train) every day. I know quite a few classmates that lost a parent or other close family member, and I even met the daughter of one of the pilots of the airplanes. (O.o; I have no idea how I managed that one.)
The memories of that day/week/month are pretty surreal and I won't go into details, but yeah, it was probably as chaotic as you think it was, lol.
It's not something I think about daily, but I think I'd be a totally different person without it. ^^;
The only thing that's "cliche" about this mess is that it's so famous and unique, but otherwise? No, no reason to make fun of you at all. I've been a witness to an act of terrorism when I was still a child, I was only about 100 meters away when the bomb exploded. It was ridiculously small compared to what happened in the US, there was "only" one victim and another almost died, but it was in a small and overall rich town with a low crime rate and terrorism, that's what happens on tv, but never where we live and... Long story short, it's a huge shock to be proven the contrary. So when I compare the scale from a small bomb with one(two) victim(s) in a small town to how many, thousands of deaths and a declaration of war to the one superpower there is in recent times? One that had never known a war or similar catastrophe on their own shores in centuries and therefor felt as safe as we did in our harmonious little town? No need to feel ashamed to be affected by that, really, especially since you were practically next door and knew some of
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I don't know that cliche is really the right word... Sort of makes it feel like you reflect on it because that's what cool people do.
Thinking about it, that day is definitely my most vivid memory. I was in CA at school. I have yet to return to lower manhattan. I went to high school in Jersey City, so I saw the buildings basically every day. Senior year of high school, I got lunch there a few times just because I it was close enough that I could get there and back to school in enough time. So seeing aftermath images on TV of places I was very familiar with was incredibly surreal. Fortunately my one friend who worked in an adjacent building to the WTC was feeling ill that day and didn't go in.
Though I don't really reflect on it much. hm... what do I reflect on... generally recent screw-ups rather than any singular parts of the past.
I don't think that event shocked me as much as some people because I was never really under the assumption that the United Sates is invulnerable. Still sticks in my mind though... quite a blow that was dealt.
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Yeah. :( Our town was very affected by it because a large portion of our population commute to NYC (it's very easily reachable by express train) every day. I know quite a few classmates that lost a parent or other close family member, and I even met the daughter of one of the pilots of the airplanes. (O.o; I have no idea how I managed that one.)
The memories of that day/week/month are pretty surreal and I won't go into details, but yeah, it was probably as chaotic as you think it was, lol.
It's not something I think about daily, but I think I'd be a totally different person without it. ^^;
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I've been a witness to an act of terrorism when I was still a child, I was only about 100 meters away when the bomb exploded. It was ridiculously small compared to what happened in the US, there was "only" one victim and another almost died, but it was in a small and overall rich town with a low crime rate and terrorism, that's what happens on tv, but never where we live and... Long story short, it's a huge shock to be proven the contrary. So when I compare the scale from a small bomb with one(two) victim(s) in a small town to how many, thousands of deaths and a declaration of war to the one superpower there is in recent times? One that had never known a war or similar catastrophe on their own shores in centuries and therefor felt as safe as we did in our harmonious little town? No need to feel ashamed to be affected by that, really, especially since you were practically next door and knew some of ( ... )
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Thinking about it, that day is definitely my most vivid memory. I was in CA at school. I have yet to return to lower manhattan. I went to high school in Jersey City, so I saw the buildings basically every day. Senior year of high school, I got lunch there a few times just because I it was close enough that I could get there and back to school in enough time. So seeing aftermath images on TV of places I was very familiar with was incredibly surreal. Fortunately my one friend who worked in an adjacent building to the WTC was feeling ill that day and didn't go in.
Though I don't really reflect on it much. hm... what do I reflect on... generally recent screw-ups rather than any singular parts of the past.
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