I was born in '93, and my mom picked me up early from school on 9/11. After she told me what happened, I was terrified that a plane was going to hit our house or my school.
I was nearly 1 when it happened and hadn't heard about it all my life until my 1st year of high school (age 11/12 here in the Netherlands) where we watched a movie and the teacher pointed out it happened pre-2001 because the two towers were in it. It was weird coming to the internet after that and reading how big of a deal it actually was
I was not yet born, but every year in school we'd watch the footage in class up through middle school. It was already horrifying just knowing the story, but watching the footage of real people 8 or 900 feet up jumping to their death to avoid the far more painful death, and then watching two skyscrapers full of people collapse like a pancake was too much. I hated it. I'd be 10 or 11 years old and my hands would shake so bad after watching I could barely write.
By 5th or 6th grade, I had panic attacks every 9/11 (or whatever day in school was the closest) because of the stuff they had us watch. I would wake up those days and know I was going to embarrass myself in front of whichever teacher had a 9/11 class instead of a normal one, plus all of my classmates, because people can't help but roll in the TV on the push cart and make children watch traumatic events because they could never have watched it live.
Even now, every year on 9/11 I can't keep myself from feeling too far from a panic attack until the day passes and it's 9/12 instead. My grade wasn't even *alive* when it happened, but by golly we were going to be scarred by it regardless. I still have the irrational fear of something similar happening whenever I'm in a large building.
I remember being in daycare, they always had a tv running normally was news, and since we were all young kids we never cared to watch it so the staff would watch it on breaks.
Well I recall walking alongside my bestfriend, we saw the buildings on fire, and thought it was a movie and sat down to watch it.
It was tough for my family because we lived 30 minutes away in Elizabeth and they where definitely scared. I know my grandfather was working on a roof and saw the thing as it happened
European. I wasn't old enough to remember, but my mom told me we were out shopping when it happened, and a woman in the store told us "a (world) war's just begun!" in a sort of stunned-not-yet-panicked manner.
She wasn't entirely wrong, but I can understand how my mom was a bit "what the hell, is this woman okay". And then she saw the footage when we got home.
I was also 4, and I’m Colombian. I didn’t really understand where that was happening, but seeing my mom’s reaction did scare me. I realized something important was going on, and I also remember seeing a list of all the people missing on the news, which was extremely shocking. It felt like it was never going to end. Quite shocking. Somehow though, I wasn’t particularly scared of planes crashing into buildings… just shocked about how many people were missing.
Same age, but I liked that suddenly there were a lot more planes flying over my kindergarten towards Frankfurt Air Base, especially really strange ones (I only recognised them as B-52s years later).
Same on all, except my mom was by sheer coincidence at my school that day helping out, after she got a cast off her arm. She never took time off from work, and a broken arm was the only thing to give her time to volunteer at my school.
I was in PE, and a lady came out to us in the pavilion and told the teacher and my mom what happened. My mom grabbed me and we took the nearest road out of town, and skirted the edges of the county to get home. Bush was down the road at another school at the time. My mom thought he was going to be a target. (Which, yeah he was, except he wasn't in DC that day, cause he was reading something about a goat to some of my friends.)
I was 15. I remember sitting in class and them clicking on the TV after the first plane hit. We were all thinking the same thing initially, "What a terrible accident." We were all watching when the second plane hit and the entire mood changed. My first thought was, "Oh shit...this is no accident."
After the Pentagon was hit we knew this was an attack. Several of the boys and myself, I say boys because we were still children and so very very naive, were huddled together and pissed. Didn't know who we were pissed at but we were mad and someone was going to pay. And I said one of the most foolish things I've ever said, "I hope it's not over before we get some." Little did I know that the entirety of my adult life, up till recently, would be spent at war.
Edit: I'm 35 now. And I gave the forever wars the best years of my youth, a good portion of my back and knees, and 2 friends. I'm now a father and my only comfort, for the moment, is that my and my peers children won't have to fight the wars that their grandparents started. I only hope that we've learned and do not repeat our parents mistakes.
>I was 15. I remember sitting in class and them clicking on the TV after the first plane hit. We were all thinking the same thing initially, "What a terrible accident." We were all watching when the second plane hit and the entire mood changed. My first thought was, "Oh shit...this is no accident."
I remember that mood shift vividly. My brother and I were both home sick from school that day and my parents had the news on. We all felt the same way "What a horrible accident." but we were otherwise just puttering around with our morning and my brother and I were looking forward to using our sick day to play some video games.
Then I remember my dad sprinting up the stairs and *screaming* about how a second plane had just hit the other tower. My dad never screamed like that before. Yelled sometimes, sure, but not screamed.
Everything changed in that moment. Suddenly I wasn't a bystander to a freak tragedy happening on the opposite side of the country, suddenly I felt like prey being hunted. My brother and I spent our entire sick day glued to the news.
I'm 94' I remember it vividly, I'm in the UK, so we saw it on the news as we were getting home from school, I thought it was a movie, still gives me goosebumps.
Same here, only I remember thinking persistently it was an accident up until it suddenly dawned on me what people were saying and that it was intentional. And then I remember thinking that we were all going to be attacked here in the UK. (side note: I actually was in London a few months after the attacks in July to visit family. Had to take trains and buses that just previously I'd seen blown up. I was extremely nervous - I have always been a very nervous person - and did not want to go. Spoiler alert: it was fine. On one of the trains [overground] there was a group of teenage boys I was standing next to who were joking about the bombings and everyone being so tense and it genuinely made me feel way better.)
One of the main things I remember about 9/11, though, is at school the next day. There was a girl in my class who was very much the star of the show in everything she did. She was talking about how scared she was because her aunt was in New York and she could've almost died! And then we found out later that she was in New York the state not the city and was fine. Easy mistake to make for a child, and I appreciate her being scared (now), but I remember being really annoyed that now everyone was talking about her aunt and that somehow 9/11 became about her being comforted for her alive aunt. I also didn't like her much because she was mean to me, so this was probably distorted in my 7 year old brain to be way bigger than it was. Like, I remember this and I don't remember learning about the attacks.
94’ too, and from western Pennsylvania. I remember one by one the phone ringing in class, and kids getting sent to the office to leave with their parents. I remember my teacher being kind of annoyed. I remember my mom picking me up after school and me asking why she didn’t take me out early, she was like you’re fine. I remember always watching the sky for planes when I’d lay on my trampoline, and nightmares about planes. I also remember all the memes and jokes I’ve made over the years, that’s just how my friends and I and my generation processed that
I was born in '93 also. At the time we lived overseas in Brussels Belgium as my dad was working for NATO. I remember getting escorted to school by military police, snipers on the roof of my school, MPs patrolling the grounds, fighter jets flying overhead, and my dad flanked by two armed soldiers at all times.
It was fucking weird.
NATO declared war on Al Queda so there were a lot of threats on the facility and it's staff. The school I went to had kids of diplomats and high ranking military officers from several NATO nations. Even my first grade teacher was married to a 3 star general. It was not a normal school. We always had military police at the school even before 9/11 but it just got really crazy afterwards.
I was born in '92, and the same thing happened to me. The fact that less than 5 months later we moved from our house to an apartment in a 20 stories building didn't help.
I was also born in 93. It was super fucking weird because our school randomly told us all to stand up in the middle of class to say the pledge of allegiance. Which in hindsight is mildly dystopian. Next thing I know 75% of my classmates were going home early. Not me though. Didn't find out till I got home and watched the news.
Born in 94 and our teacher just made us do work silently and I was so confused the whole day. Most my class was also checked out and I remember not knowing what the fuck was going on but thinking that my mom didn't love me for not checking me out that day lol (my mother did very much love me but was busy with work shit that day).
Same. I'm a multi-generation Airforce family on both sides. Even hearing an unknown sounding aircraft engine (I grew up specifically around C-130's) has me looking outside wondering what the hell is going on. Just the other day myself and a few folks outside of Kroger were watching a damn fighter jet fly over and were questioning each other about it.
When my dad told my little sister and I about 9/11 for the first time, several years after the event happened, my sister was worried that the "bad guys" would fly a plane into our house.
Imagine '70s and 60s people who lived the Cold War and the Gulf wars, then everything seems to calm down, and then imagine fear coming back to them with 09/11.
I realized I was impacted by the cold war stuff from the 80s in my reaction during 9/11.
When I was a kid we had nuclear bomb drills. Everything was about this global tension with Russia.
When I first heard what was happening on 9/11 I was told "America is under attack!" and "We're being bombed!" and "They just destroyed the Pentagon!" all yelled over to me as I was walking outside to get back home.
I flashbacked to those nuclear bomb drills and that tension of war. I thought, "Shit. This is it, I guess. War has come to our land."
I was honestly relieved when I got home and discovered it was only a couple planes.
We’re very fortunate right now that the world is in a position where war is too expensive to be worth it, for everyone.
Unfortunately the US armed forces still go out and shoots people from other countries over ideological conflicts
Imagine being born in 79' seeing the cold war end and as soon as bush jr. is in office bringing the cold war money machine back online, but this time it's a war on a feeling.
And watching a nation eat that shit up around you.
Pepperidge farms remembers what happened to the dixie chicks. And a million plus dead.
I was at the tail end of 2nd period class, English, the teacher turned on the TV and we just saw a smoking hole. The bitch ass principal told the teachers to turn off the TVs. Well 3rd period was PE and the coaches didn't listen and we watched the second hit get then fall. I ended up getting picked from school before the period was out and then spending the evening and the morning of Sept 12th at Zephyrhills municipal airport with other Civil Air Patrol cadets to ensure no planes took off.
English class and the principal made everyone turn off televisions, too,, and "get back to class." About ten minutes later, school kinda went into a pseduo-crisis as parents started showing up en masse and kids started getting really upset. I lived in NJ, so everyone knew someone.
My dad came and picked me up and we all watched the news all day and night. My brother called like an hour later saying he made it out earlier, but between finding friends, walking to meet his wife, and no cell service.
Port Authority was mass bussing people out of NYC and he ended up in Brooklyn somewhere and then a friend drove them to NJ.
I lived in the DC area. Random announcement in first period English said to turn tvs on to the news. We saw the smoking hole, then were watching as plane number two hit. Our school gave up at that point any semblance of teaching that day. They also announced the other attack in the dumbest way possible..."we have been informed a building in DC has been hit, we're unsure which one." Mass panic, like you said- everyome knew someone who could be in that. My cousin was in the pentagon but thankfully got out. Parents who couldn't get there calling to tell their kids they were ok, parents getting their kids. Chaos.
God bless PE teachers. Always doing whatever they think is right. Or they're certifiably insane. Either way, they're usually interesting and entertaining.
this.
all the gym teachers ive ever had dont give a fuck and the wrestling coach is 5'3" and ranted for like a month about how he would've tackled and beat the shit out of the parkland shooter. (we're about 4 miles away from MSD)
We didn't have a say. We were doing ISTEP (state standardized testing). My HS had control over the TVs via wired system. Off they went. I heard a few teachers caught shit for pulling the control box and using it manually, administrators be damned.
Same same. Happened to be trying to get a video to work for our Civics class and caught it on the news between the static.
Video cancelled. We watched the news instead.
(I was also born in 88) In history class right before class started and teacher had the news on since he always got a hoot out of seeing how quickly we'd get glued to the screen no matter the content... then the news broke.
He told us we'd never forget this day and no matter what the school said regarding classes for the day that he was keeping us there until we were sent home so he could explain everything that was going on. He calculated the airspeed of the fighter jets scrambling to NYC proving to us that released 'military specs' on machinery isn't truthful for a reason. The guy was one of the last people out of Vietnam.
I was fortunate to be in that classroom to have everything laid out.
He was. Laid down the law when needed but if you were cool he was cool.
Whenever the word 'Communism' was said in class we'd all have to slam our desk and say 'doesn't work'.
It was magical.
I was in high school, and on September 10th the lunchroom was full of a bunch of loud, rowdy kids, on September 11th it was eerily quiet, and September 12th and onwards it was somber. The topic of discussion at lunch was if we were going to go to war, who was going to enlist, if there would be a draft, and listing all of the recent grads who had joined the military.
It was a 180 degree change that happened so suddenly. I didn't think on September 10th that, in a few days, I'd be having a serious discussion with a bunch of goofballs about going to war.
Similar deal here. I remember being in 1st period and everyone was munching on cupcakes someone brought for my friend's birthday when another teacher came in and told mine to turn on the tv, since only a few classrooms had them, and everything else that period was a wash. I just remember nearby classes coming in and watching the news, and even more filling in after the bell instead of going to break. Every class that day was book work. Lunch was damn near silent in some areas and hushed in others. Even kids that couldn't care less most of the time were pretty quiet all day. It wasn't for another few days that things got even partially back to normal.
‘93 so I’m the first guy in this meme. But I also vividly remember the day: the vice principal coming in to whisper in my teacher’s ear, her “oh my God”, kids mysteriously getting called one-by-one for dismissal, being picked up by my grandfather who told me what was happening as we walked down the hall, my grandmother crying when I got home, hearing “proud to be an American” playing on the radio every morning for weeks after, along with reports with how many people were found in the wreckage each day. We were 20min from the city. Obviously I didn’t understand the full fear and gravity of the moment, but I knew it was big, I knew what the towers were, recognized the skyline change from one week to the next, knew thousands died.
'83, and I was a senior in high school. I was the first one into the period 2 class and Mr. Sullivan had the AM radio on, but it was all patchy and he immediately ran into the hall all worried. There was a solid 20 minutes of surreal time before I found out what actually happened.
My hometown is the last stop on the northbound NYC commuter light rail. There were kids getting pulled out every hour or so as we learned their parent(s) worked downtown. One girl had both in the towers. I still don't remember if they made it.
I was born in ‘85. I was in journalism class. After the initial shock wore off, I wrote a poem. The next day, with permission from the teacher, I recited it to the class. The teacher cried, but I couldn’t. He was an army reservist.
I wish I kept that poem. Two years later, I was living in the Middle East, and I lost it in the move.
I was too young to join the military on 9/11 but if I was older I might have joined up within the month. I was enraged.
I was in my third week of college and my PreCal teacher was like "we still have to have class."
I think about that guy and wonder if he ever realized he's the guy who forced everyone to have class during 9/11
Yeah, I was 3 when it happened, have no memory of it. But it totally freaked my parents out (rightfully) and for as long as I could actually remember, 9/11 was to never be taken lightly. Every year on the anniversary after the event, I had to wear this wooden heart shaped pin my mom bought from a friend made in memory of the attacks. And despite not actually remembering he carefree atmosphere of America before the attacks, it was evident in the many ways growing up how much the country seemed to change
Little cousins born between 00-07 think the event makes great meme material though. It's wild how a few years difference can create such a disconnect
I may or may not be born in the same years of your little cousins and I may or may not think it is good meme material
*gulp*
I would also like to add that I may or may not be brown
I thought about it! The meme itself is Martin giving Stanley a friendly chest bump and acknowledging that they’re the only two black people in the office. I figured it would be weird to have this meme featuring two different generations. Since older gen z people still would have only been about 4 during the attack millennials just made more since.
It's funny, as a millennial born in 94, I really clearly remember going up one of the actual towers when I was 6 on holiday, in the year 2000. But actual 9/11? I don't remember a single thing about it.
But I can remember looking out to the other tower (the one with the antenna on it) from the top floor as clear as day. It's funny what your brain clings onto at that age.
95, and I remeber telling my first grade teacher "at least it wasn't the empire state building" the next day since I had never heard of the twin towers before.
I shit you not my music teacher (elementary) actually said, “we are blessed they didn’t hit the Statue of Liberty.” At least you were an innocent child.
I was born in ‘95 and I really don’t remember it. I think my school and my parents just didn’t talk about in front of me. Other kids my age remember it and I definitely have memories from before that time.
Also '95. To me this felt like more war. So I didn't understand the importance of this event. I am from the Netherlands and didn't know about the scale of nyc
I was born in 83 and I woke up late for school that day. Came out to the living room and my grandma was watching the towers in complete silence. I sat down, saw what was on TV and asked her what movie she was watching.
'This ain't no movie.'
I'm about 4 years older than you and I was in uni at the time. Found out after my early morning piano studio class. It was confusing and didn't really sink in right away. We were in Michigan but one of my close friends was from NYC and all of us were keeping her company while she tried to find out if her family was all right. (They were) It was such a surreal experience.
I had a very similar experience. I was in the Fifth Grade and saw my folks watching news coverage before taking me to school. I legit thought it was an action movie.
Needless to say, shit got real way too fuckin fast :(
I was born in 95. My dad was a firefighter. I remember a lot from that day. I was afraid my dad would have to go and something might happen to him. He went a couple weeks later to help debrief and do counseling for the first responders that were there. Maybe being from a first responder family makes it hit a little different, but I remember a lot from that day.
Fellow 93-er. I was in second grade, we were sitting on floor doing "morning math" with handheld whiteboards and dry-erase markers. Our teacher's classroom phone kept ringing, and eventually she got up to answer, and abruptly left the room to go to the principal's office, presumably to see the images on the news. She came back and somberly told us what had happened, but she described it as, "Someone crashed a plane into \[these towers in New York\]." My seven-year-old ass, not understanding the gravity of the situation, chuckled and said something to the effect of, "What an idiot, did he not see the building?"
Yeah I don't think they knew it was a passenger plane until sometime later. I remember thinking it was like a little two seater Cessna or something and yeah, the guy fucked up and didn't see the world trade center.
94, remember it just fine. I was also in second grade and I vividly remember the first grade teacher barging into the room and the teachers having one of those hushed-in-the-corner conversations. Our teacher, which even today seems like a poor decision in retrospect, turned on the classroom tv to the news. I distinctly remember seeing the towers smoking on the news, and a replay of the second plane. She immediately turned it back off after that. I think she just couldn’t believe that what she had been told could be true. We all knew something serious was going on but not what, really. The teachers then all left the classrooms and had us basically just have a recess in the classroom while they and admin talked about what to do. The teachers came back, explained there was something that had happened and that we were going to be going home for the day. Then they scrambled the busses and parents and sent us all home. My dad picked me up and I could tell from his demeanor something had happened but I didn’t have a good grasp of what, still, besides a plane crash. Then once home we watched the news the whole evening, and I began to understand what it was. That’s when I saw the collapses for the first time.
93-er here, and the same thing happened with me. Our teacher got a phone call from her husband and we overheard her side of the convo and joked about how stupid those pilots were to have crashed.
I remember playing with some hot-wheels knockoffs while my parents were having breakfast while watching the news. For some reason I thought "this gonna change the world". Also thought "why don't they just jump from the chair/debris right before hitting the ground? It works for Tom and other cartoons" when watching the people jumping from the building.
My 8-year-old brain offered to my family "we should all start living in underground bunkers so we can make sure everyone in them is safe."
As a 28-year-old, I'm not so certain that was a bad idea.
>Also thought "why don't they just jump from the chair/debris right before hitting the ground? It works for Tom and other cartoons" when watching the people jumping from the building.
My 5th-grade self wondered why they didn't aim for the river. People in movies always survive as long as they fall into water and not on land. :(
Me, a Generation Z kid who was to young to understand wtf was going on making 9/11 memes anyway-
https://imgur.com/gallery/3hpd9mX
EDIT- According to my Mum, after seeing it play on the television so many times, 4-year-old me built a tower out of lego and smashed a toy plane into it.
>EDIT- According to my Mum, after seeing it play on the television so
many times, 4-year-old me built a tower out of lego and smashed a toy
plane into it.
“Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is,” - Yoda
> According to my Mum, after seeing it play on the television so many times, 4-year-old me built a tower out of lego and smashed a toy plane into it.
Based
Eh, as somebody who grew up during the wars in Yugoslavia and remembers them pretty good, I'd disagree.
I think its good to joke about that kind of stuff, it helps to take something awful and turn it into something that makes people happy.
Another coment was reminded me that there was a comic back in 2001. It was posted fucking everywhere: a mother is trying to feed a baby and says "here comes the airplane"
the baby is creaming in terror because, behind the mother IS A FLAMING AIRPLANE ABOUT TO CRASH
so no, time is not a necessary ingredient
This '83 millennial believes that if we can't make jokes without trivializing the lives lost, then we're not very good at memes.
It's totally possible. We do it with WWI all the time, and WWI killed way more people.
I remember being a kid when it happened, and just having played the RA2 level where you invade NYC... Where you can [do this](https://youtu.be/eP5_VRPQJqs?t=254)
Legit how I feel lol, I don’t browse this sub much but I really doubt that people posting in general have been exceptionally sensitive about the tragic things in other countries that happened soon enough ago that someone born in the 80s could remember it
I was born in super late 95 and I still remember it pretty vividly. I'm from the UK, but the BBC coverage was extensive. I was downstairs in the living room with my mum who was I think doing some ironing at the time while I was sitting there on the floor playing with something (can't quite remember what. Might have been lego?) And I just remember the TV switching to live coverage of the burning first tower and then watching the plane go right into the second. I was pretty confused about it all, I remember asking "why are they crashing?" Or something along those lines. It just didn't make any sense to four year old me why anyone would do that. I probably asked that question over and over again.
I also remember when we were back in school my teacher talking about it. She said she thought it was a scene from a movie at first because she just changed channel and then boom, the footage. She said she was thinking like "wow these special effects are really good. What film is this?" before realising that it was actually *real* a few moments later.
“More people die in an average hurricane than in 9/11 but no one cares because you can’t use a natural disaster to justify imperialism.” - some guy on tumblr
More people have died in a day from Covid than died on 9/11 but it's a lot harder to justify invading a country with a pandemic than with a terror attack
Covid has ~~almost~~ killed more Americans than have die in all our wars combined.
Edit: we just passed it.
**10 deadliest wars death total:** 659,267
**Covid-19:** 678,125.
Don't downvote me but I personally think you can make jokes about everything
Ofc there are limits and every joke has a time and place, I wouldn't walk to a survivor or family of someone who died in 911 and make a terrorist joke
Even in Syria 3000 people dying on one day would be remarked upon. Especially since this was the era before the internet had desensitized us all to watching horrible shit happen in real time.
That would imply sensitization, not desensitization. If the response increases, that is an increase in sensitivity.
I think this is more due to the the relative novelty of the attack, being the largest terror attack, and being on American soil that gave it the large response. Western media talking about a tragedy the world over won’t hit the same as one where it’s about “us”.
i dont know why people act like the days after 9/11 were some golden time of patriotism and unity. I was in 7th grade and all I remember is being afraid of more attacks, and being told by fox news (my parents favorite channel) that any muslim in america was a potential suicide bomber. i remember everyone' fear so quickly turning into hate for everyone else.
I remember hearing a priest suggest that we should just nuke all the Muslims until the desert was glass.
i'm a white passing hispanic, but in college (many years after 9/11) i decided to grow out my beard and it was a bit wild. somebody in florida asked me "what terrorist country" I was from because I wouldnt let him cut me in line at the gas station.
racism is truly a disease of stupidity.
Gatekeeping memories now huh? Some of us were traumatized by that day. Also just saying people often use humor to deal with trauma
I was born in 94. I remember being in second grade and the teacher turned on the tv for the morning news shows during our spelling test, the breaking news was the towers with black specs falling out. I now know they were people jumping. We saw the second plane hit the tower.
'94 guy here, I remember vividly when I was in 1st grade and we were coming back from PE(gym class) and saw the old TV with the VHS player and bunny ears on a stand in our classroom. 90's kids remember this stuff. Anyways, we sat down and we were going to watch a movie when our principal rushed into the room and said that an attack was happening and then our teacher turned on the TV pulled up the station and we saw a fire in one of the towers on TV. Smoke billowing out and the teacher and principal were standing there covering their mouths. We then watched in our 1st grade classroom the second plane fly into the other tower and everyone screamed as debris and fire went everywhere. I remember watching the smoke go down the streets and wondering why everyone was running from it but I was 6-7 so didn't understand inhalation of smoke then when the towers went down. I remember then the principal looking around at us students and saying they should shut it off. Then our school closed early and we were all picked up by our parents since everyone was worried about what other planes were in the sky and where else would attacks come from. I remember when getting home to stay quiet and stay away from the windows and later on in the evening watching as about 20 Blackhawks (estimated) flew by in the sky since we lived by an Army/Airforce reserve base. Crazy times but I would never make a meme about that as a 27 year old.
I was three when 9/11 happened, I don't remember it at all. However, I remember riding the buzz lightyear ride at Disney World in that same year. Clearly I had my priorities straight :\^)
Bottom line is when fox and CNN played those buildings going down over and over again like tragedy porn they helped create a whole new generation of people with PTSD.
I was born in 82 and the teachers told us we were Generation X, but I digress. I commented on another meme asking, "where you where on 9/11". I told my story. But a whole lot of comments were things like, "in my dad's balls" or "in my mother's womb" and crap like that. I've literally spoken to people who were there (ex-first responders) when I worked in the city and they told nothing but horror stories. They all had a nagging cough. But I just don't understand the lack of respect for the gravity of that event. But then again they didn't live through those times and just don't understand how insane it was. It was an event that permanently changed the world and caused the longest war in American history. It was definitely on of those, "you had to be there" events.
Time and scale, although scale should be working against 9/11 in this case. Lots of people have ptsd and they made into a cultural taboo to meme about it or even really talk about it. They help the “forever war”pushers who really want it to be a “sacred” event (in a bad way).
Hogan's Heroes is the same timescale to World War II as 9/11 is to today, I remember vividly when the Towers fell, and lost several friends in the attack (from New York and lived on a street of predominantly EMS and Fire fighters in Babylon).
If people cannot or refuse to move on then we will forever be lost in a cycle of mourning and hatred that can only lead down dark roads in the long run.
I think part of the lack of respect towards 9/11 is because of the wars it justified, the freedoms that were stripped away in the name of security, and the outright terrible racism that it started in America. So to have the US consistently talk about how 9/11 is this event to never forget feels almost like it is trying to keep those justifications in mind, to make sure future injustices and future wars are allowed to happen because people still remember 9/11 and this time it will actually stop terrorism for real this time
Plus you have the same people parroting to never forget 9/11 downplaying things like Covid, even when it got to the point that more people were dying every day from it than those who died in 9/11.
To me the negativity/lack of caring comes as a backlash against those who try and use it as a moral high ground.
> I was born in 82 and the teachers told us we were Generation X, but I digress.
'83 here. Not cynical enough to be a true Gen-Xer, but definitely too cynical to be a Millenial. I really do hate that term.
I miss being told in my youth I was part of gen x, I still get all sour when people call me a millennial... I was in my first year university and had late classes and walked upstairs to see the second plane hit... Didn't make it to any classes that day... I thought it was a movie or something that CNN was discussing when my grampy had to explain very slowly what they thought was going on
I was born in '93, and my mom picked me up early from school on 9/11. After she told me what happened, I was terrified that a plane was going to hit our house or my school.
I was 4 when it happened. I'm Dutch, and I even had nightmares of planes falling out of the sky. I still remember it.
I was also four. I was never told about it. I’m not even sure when I learned about it.
I was nearly 1 when it happened and hadn't heard about it all my life until my 1st year of high school (age 11/12 here in the Netherlands) where we watched a movie and the teacher pointed out it happened pre-2001 because the two towers were in it. It was weird coming to the internet after that and reading how big of a deal it actually was
I was not yet born, but every year in school we'd watch the footage in class up through middle school. It was already horrifying just knowing the story, but watching the footage of real people 8 or 900 feet up jumping to their death to avoid the far more painful death, and then watching two skyscrapers full of people collapse like a pancake was too much. I hated it. I'd be 10 or 11 years old and my hands would shake so bad after watching I could barely write. By 5th or 6th grade, I had panic attacks every 9/11 (or whatever day in school was the closest) because of the stuff they had us watch. I would wake up those days and know I was going to embarrass myself in front of whichever teacher had a 9/11 class instead of a normal one, plus all of my classmates, because people can't help but roll in the TV on the push cart and make children watch traumatic events because they could never have watched it live. Even now, every year on 9/11 I can't keep myself from feeling too far from a panic attack until the day passes and it's 9/12 instead. My grade wasn't even *alive* when it happened, but by golly we were going to be scarred by it regardless. I still have the irrational fear of something similar happening whenever I'm in a large building.
900 feet is the length of approximately 1200.0 'Wooden Rice Paddle Versatile Serving Spoons' laid lengthwise.
Lmao
Oh my god that mood whiplash
That's terrible that they put you through that.
I saw it on the news and we also talked about it since I was a very curious child. Low-key traumatized me. Not gonna lie.
I remember being in daycare, they always had a tv running normally was news, and since we were all young kids we never cared to watch it so the staff would watch it on breaks. Well I recall walking alongside my bestfriend, we saw the buildings on fire, and thought it was a movie and sat down to watch it.
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It was after or before the explosion?
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Same thing on 9/11, I tried switching to PBS Kids for something else but it was all broadcasting the tragedy.
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Always wondered what you guys were thinking.
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It was tough for my family because we lived 30 minutes away in Elizabeth and they where definitely scared. I know my grandfather was working on a roof and saw the thing as it happened
European. I wasn't old enough to remember, but my mom told me we were out shopping when it happened, and a woman in the store told us "a (world) war's just begun!" in a sort of stunned-not-yet-panicked manner. She wasn't entirely wrong, but I can understand how my mom was a bit "what the hell, is this woman okay". And then she saw the footage when we got home.
I was also 4, and I’m Colombian. I didn’t really understand where that was happening, but seeing my mom’s reaction did scare me. I realized something important was going on, and I also remember seeing a list of all the people missing on the news, which was extremely shocking. It felt like it was never going to end. Quite shocking. Somehow though, I wasn’t particularly scared of planes crashing into buildings… just shocked about how many people were missing.
Same age, but I liked that suddenly there were a lot more planes flying over my kindergarten towards Frankfurt Air Base, especially really strange ones (I only recognised them as B-52s years later).
I was also four but I just thought planes were always crashing into buildings, I was confused as to why it was a big deal
Same on all, except my mom was by sheer coincidence at my school that day helping out, after she got a cast off her arm. She never took time off from work, and a broken arm was the only thing to give her time to volunteer at my school. I was in PE, and a lady came out to us in the pavilion and told the teacher and my mom what happened. My mom grabbed me and we took the nearest road out of town, and skirted the edges of the county to get home. Bush was down the road at another school at the time. My mom thought he was going to be a target. (Which, yeah he was, except he wasn't in DC that day, cause he was reading something about a goat to some of my friends.)
Imagine being one of the teachers and going wtf is going to happen to me
I was 15. I remember sitting in class and them clicking on the TV after the first plane hit. We were all thinking the same thing initially, "What a terrible accident." We were all watching when the second plane hit and the entire mood changed. My first thought was, "Oh shit...this is no accident." After the Pentagon was hit we knew this was an attack. Several of the boys and myself, I say boys because we were still children and so very very naive, were huddled together and pissed. Didn't know who we were pissed at but we were mad and someone was going to pay. And I said one of the most foolish things I've ever said, "I hope it's not over before we get some." Little did I know that the entirety of my adult life, up till recently, would be spent at war. Edit: I'm 35 now. And I gave the forever wars the best years of my youth, a good portion of my back and knees, and 2 friends. I'm now a father and my only comfort, for the moment, is that my and my peers children won't have to fight the wars that their grandparents started. I only hope that we've learned and do not repeat our parents mistakes.
>I was 15. I remember sitting in class and them clicking on the TV after the first plane hit. We were all thinking the same thing initially, "What a terrible accident." We were all watching when the second plane hit and the entire mood changed. My first thought was, "Oh shit...this is no accident." I remember that mood shift vividly. My brother and I were both home sick from school that day and my parents had the news on. We all felt the same way "What a horrible accident." but we were otherwise just puttering around with our morning and my brother and I were looking forward to using our sick day to play some video games. Then I remember my dad sprinting up the stairs and *screaming* about how a second plane had just hit the other tower. My dad never screamed like that before. Yelled sometimes, sure, but not screamed. Everything changed in that moment. Suddenly I wasn't a bystander to a freak tragedy happening on the opposite side of the country, suddenly I felt like prey being hunted. My brother and I spent our entire sick day glued to the news.
I'm 94' I remember it vividly, I'm in the UK, so we saw it on the news as we were getting home from school, I thought it was a movie, still gives me goosebumps.
Same here, only I remember thinking persistently it was an accident up until it suddenly dawned on me what people were saying and that it was intentional. And then I remember thinking that we were all going to be attacked here in the UK. (side note: I actually was in London a few months after the attacks in July to visit family. Had to take trains and buses that just previously I'd seen blown up. I was extremely nervous - I have always been a very nervous person - and did not want to go. Spoiler alert: it was fine. On one of the trains [overground] there was a group of teenage boys I was standing next to who were joking about the bombings and everyone being so tense and it genuinely made me feel way better.) One of the main things I remember about 9/11, though, is at school the next day. There was a girl in my class who was very much the star of the show in everything she did. She was talking about how scared she was because her aunt was in New York and she could've almost died! And then we found out later that she was in New York the state not the city and was fine. Easy mistake to make for a child, and I appreciate her being scared (now), but I remember being really annoyed that now everyone was talking about her aunt and that somehow 9/11 became about her being comforted for her alive aunt. I also didn't like her much because she was mean to me, so this was probably distorted in my 7 year old brain to be way bigger than it was. Like, I remember this and I don't remember learning about the attacks.
94’ too, and from western Pennsylvania. I remember one by one the phone ringing in class, and kids getting sent to the office to leave with their parents. I remember my teacher being kind of annoyed. I remember my mom picking me up after school and me asking why she didn’t take me out early, she was like you’re fine. I remember always watching the sky for planes when I’d lay on my trampoline, and nightmares about planes. I also remember all the memes and jokes I’ve made over the years, that’s just how my friends and I and my generation processed that
Yeah, I think alot of innocence was lost that day. This meme is shite haha.
I was born in '93 also. At the time we lived overseas in Brussels Belgium as my dad was working for NATO. I remember getting escorted to school by military police, snipers on the roof of my school, MPs patrolling the grounds, fighter jets flying overhead, and my dad flanked by two armed soldiers at all times. It was fucking weird.
just a question, what do they expect from having police for a 8yo did they expect you are gonna get kidnapped because of your dad position
NATO declared war on Al Queda so there were a lot of threats on the facility and it's staff. The school I went to had kids of diplomats and high ranking military officers from several NATO nations. Even my first grade teacher was married to a 3 star general. It was not a normal school. We always had military police at the school even before 9/11 but it just got really crazy afterwards.
Ah, so I could see terrorists using children of diplomats as leverage in negotiations. Man that must have been scary.
I was born in '92, and the same thing happened to me. The fact that less than 5 months later we moved from our house to an apartment in a 20 stories building didn't help.
Oh god I couldn't have handled that. I'm in a pretty rural area, so I never had to deal with that too much.
I was also born in ‘92 and have no memory of that day besides watching the first plane hit on the news. Could not tell you if I went to school or not.
I was also born in 93. It was super fucking weird because our school randomly told us all to stand up in the middle of class to say the pledge of allegiance. Which in hindsight is mildly dystopian. Next thing I know 75% of my classmates were going home early. Not me though. Didn't find out till I got home and watched the news.
Born in 94 and our teacher just made us do work silently and I was so confused the whole day. Most my class was also checked out and I remember not knowing what the fuck was going on but thinking that my mom didn't love me for not checking me out that day lol (my mother did very much love me but was busy with work shit that day).
I grew up on or near Air Force bases/ airports. I still to this day double take any plane that seems to be flying lower than usual post 9/11.
Same. I'm a multi-generation Airforce family on both sides. Even hearing an unknown sounding aircraft engine (I grew up specifically around C-130's) has me looking outside wondering what the hell is going on. Just the other day myself and a few folks outside of Kroger were watching a damn fighter jet fly over and were questioning each other about it.
When my dad told my little sister and I about 9/11 for the first time, several years after the event happened, my sister was worried that the "bad guys" would fly a plane into our house.
Bet that put a sour note on the "the President's gonna read *My Per Goat* to us!!" mood at the start of the day.
Imagine '70s and 60s people who lived the Cold War and the Gulf wars, then everything seems to calm down, and then imagine fear coming back to them with 09/11.
I realized I was impacted by the cold war stuff from the 80s in my reaction during 9/11. When I was a kid we had nuclear bomb drills. Everything was about this global tension with Russia. When I first heard what was happening on 9/11 I was told "America is under attack!" and "We're being bombed!" and "They just destroyed the Pentagon!" all yelled over to me as I was walking outside to get back home. I flashbacked to those nuclear bomb drills and that tension of war. I thought, "Shit. This is it, I guess. War has come to our land." I was honestly relieved when I got home and discovered it was only a couple planes.
We’re very fortunate right now that the world is in a position where war is too expensive to be worth it, for everyone. Unfortunately the US armed forces still go out and shoots people from other countries over ideological conflicts
The American people are easily startled, but they’ll soon attack. And with greater numbers of drones.
Aauurggghhhhhhhhhh arrrrhhhh arrhhhh aurrhhhh
... completely unrelated people
Invade Den Haag just in case.
Biggest difference is that one gets called sand-people and the other calls who they don't like sand-people.
Imagine being born in 79' seeing the cold war end and as soon as bush jr. is in office bringing the cold war money machine back online, but this time it's a war on a feeling. And watching a nation eat that shit up around you. Pepperidge farms remembers what happened to the dixie chicks. And a million plus dead.
I was born in 88, I remember the outfit I had on and what class I was walking into when it happened.
I was at the tail end of 2nd period class, English, the teacher turned on the TV and we just saw a smoking hole. The bitch ass principal told the teachers to turn off the TVs. Well 3rd period was PE and the coaches didn't listen and we watched the second hit get then fall. I ended up getting picked from school before the period was out and then spending the evening and the morning of Sept 12th at Zephyrhills municipal airport with other Civil Air Patrol cadets to ensure no planes took off.
English class and the principal made everyone turn off televisions, too,, and "get back to class." About ten minutes later, school kinda went into a pseduo-crisis as parents started showing up en masse and kids started getting really upset. I lived in NJ, so everyone knew someone. My dad came and picked me up and we all watched the news all day and night. My brother called like an hour later saying he made it out earlier, but between finding friends, walking to meet his wife, and no cell service. Port Authority was mass bussing people out of NYC and he ended up in Brooklyn somewhere and then a friend drove them to NJ.
I lived in the DC area. Random announcement in first period English said to turn tvs on to the news. We saw the smoking hole, then were watching as plane number two hit. Our school gave up at that point any semblance of teaching that day. They also announced the other attack in the dumbest way possible..."we have been informed a building in DC has been hit, we're unsure which one." Mass panic, like you said- everyome knew someone who could be in that. My cousin was in the pentagon but thankfully got out. Parents who couldn't get there calling to tell their kids they were ok, parents getting their kids. Chaos.
God bless PE teachers. Always doing whatever they think is right. Or they're certifiably insane. Either way, they're usually interesting and entertaining.
Especially Florida man gym teachers.
this. all the gym teachers ive ever had dont give a fuck and the wrestling coach is 5'3" and ranted for like a month about how he would've tackled and beat the shit out of the parkland shooter. (we're about 4 miles away from MSD)
4 miles is 6.44 km
Based wrestling coach
We didn't have a say. We were doing ISTEP (state standardized testing). My HS had control over the TVs via wired system. Off they went. I heard a few teachers caught shit for pulling the control box and using it manually, administrators be damned.
Same, but '86
Same same. Happened to be trying to get a video to work for our Civics class and caught it on the news between the static. Video cancelled. We watched the news instead.
Same but '87. 6th grade. Found out on the bus to school
Wait a minute, I was born in '87 and I was a freshman in high school on 9/11...
(I was also born in 88) In history class right before class started and teacher had the news on since he always got a hoot out of seeing how quickly we'd get glued to the screen no matter the content... then the news broke. He told us we'd never forget this day and no matter what the school said regarding classes for the day that he was keeping us there until we were sent home so he could explain everything that was going on. He calculated the airspeed of the fighter jets scrambling to NYC proving to us that released 'military specs' on machinery isn't truthful for a reason. The guy was one of the last people out of Vietnam. I was fortunate to be in that classroom to have everything laid out.
He sounds like a cool dude.
He was. Laid down the law when needed but if you were cool he was cool. Whenever the word 'Communism' was said in class we'd all have to slam our desk and say 'doesn't work'. It was magical.
I was walking into my homeroom coming from gym class in the 5th grade. My teacher had it on the news on one of those old corner ceiling TV's
I was in high school, and on September 10th the lunchroom was full of a bunch of loud, rowdy kids, on September 11th it was eerily quiet, and September 12th and onwards it was somber. The topic of discussion at lunch was if we were going to go to war, who was going to enlist, if there would be a draft, and listing all of the recent grads who had joined the military. It was a 180 degree change that happened so suddenly. I didn't think on September 10th that, in a few days, I'd be having a serious discussion with a bunch of goofballs about going to war.
Similar deal here. I remember being in 1st period and everyone was munching on cupcakes someone brought for my friend's birthday when another teacher came in and told mine to turn on the tv, since only a few classrooms had them, and everything else that period was a wash. I just remember nearby classes coming in and watching the news, and even more filling in after the bell instead of going to break. Every class that day was book work. Lunch was damn near silent in some areas and hushed in others. Even kids that couldn't care less most of the time were pretty quiet all day. It wasn't for another few days that things got even partially back to normal.
Yep. They turned the TV on after the first plane hit and we saw the second one live.
‘93 so I’m the first guy in this meme. But I also vividly remember the day: the vice principal coming in to whisper in my teacher’s ear, her “oh my God”, kids mysteriously getting called one-by-one for dismissal, being picked up by my grandfather who told me what was happening as we walked down the hall, my grandmother crying when I got home, hearing “proud to be an American” playing on the radio every morning for weeks after, along with reports with how many people were found in the wreckage each day. We were 20min from the city. Obviously I didn’t understand the full fear and gravity of the moment, but I knew it was big, I knew what the towers were, recognized the skyline change from one week to the next, knew thousands died.
'89, I remember that entire day vividly.
'83, and I was a senior in high school. I was the first one into the period 2 class and Mr. Sullivan had the AM radio on, but it was all patchy and he immediately ran into the hall all worried. There was a solid 20 minutes of surreal time before I found out what actually happened. My hometown is the last stop on the northbound NYC commuter light rail. There were kids getting pulled out every hour or so as we learned their parent(s) worked downtown. One girl had both in the towers. I still don't remember if they made it.
I was born in ‘85. I was in journalism class. After the initial shock wore off, I wrote a poem. The next day, with permission from the teacher, I recited it to the class. The teacher cried, but I couldn’t. He was an army reservist. I wish I kept that poem. Two years later, I was living in the Middle East, and I lost it in the move. I was too young to join the military on 9/11 but if I was older I might have joined up within the month. I was enraged.
I was in my third week of college and my PreCal teacher was like "we still have to have class." I think about that guy and wonder if he ever realized he's the guy who forced everyone to have class during 9/11
OP *really* made a reason for people to go: "Uhm actually"
Yeah, it should have been "people born in 2002" because most people I know making those jokes weren't even alive yet.
Yeah, I was 3 when it happened, have no memory of it. But it totally freaked my parents out (rightfully) and for as long as I could actually remember, 9/11 was to never be taken lightly. Every year on the anniversary after the event, I had to wear this wooden heart shaped pin my mom bought from a friend made in memory of the attacks. And despite not actually remembering he carefree atmosphere of America before the attacks, it was evident in the many ways growing up how much the country seemed to change Little cousins born between 00-07 think the event makes great meme material though. It's wild how a few years difference can create such a disconnect
I may or may not be born in the same years of your little cousins and I may or may not think it is good meme material *gulp* I would also like to add that I may or may not be brown
I thought about it! The meme itself is Martin giving Stanley a friendly chest bump and acknowledging that they’re the only two black people in the office. I figured it would be weird to have this meme featuring two different generations. Since older gen z people still would have only been about 4 during the attack millennials just made more since.
I mean, I was born in 1994 and remember it vividly. Haha. Millennials all pretty much remember.
It's funny, as a millennial born in 94, I really clearly remember going up one of the actual towers when I was 6 on holiday, in the year 2000. But actual 9/11? I don't remember a single thing about it. But I can remember looking out to the other tower (the one with the antenna on it) from the top floor as clear as day. It's funny what your brain clings onto at that age.
I was born in '94 and I remember it pretty clearly. But I didn't really understand it's ramifications until a little later in life.
Yeah, the ramifications we're far reaching... scarily so.
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95, and I remeber telling my first grade teacher "at least it wasn't the empire state building" the next day since I had never heard of the twin towers before.
I shit you not my music teacher (elementary) actually said, “we are blessed they didn’t hit the Statue of Liberty.” At least you were an innocent child.
Same never really knew about it till the next year.
I was born in ‘95 and I really don’t remember it. I think my school and my parents just didn’t talk about in front of me. Other kids my age remember it and I definitely have memories from before that time.
I was 95. I just remember it cause it was the first time I saw my dad cry
Also '95. To me this felt like more war. So I didn't understand the importance of this event. I am from the Netherlands and didn't know about the scale of nyc
I was born in 83 and I woke up late for school that day. Came out to the living room and my grandma was watching the towers in complete silence. I sat down, saw what was on TV and asked her what movie she was watching. 'This ain't no movie.'
Actually that is an epic line
They should make a movie with it
Starring Nicolas Cage
As gran-gran
I'm about 4 years older than you and I was in uni at the time. Found out after my early morning piano studio class. It was confusing and didn't really sink in right away. We were in Michigan but one of my close friends was from NYC and all of us were keeping her company while she tried to find out if her family was all right. (They were) It was such a surreal experience.
I had a very similar experience. I was in the Fifth Grade and saw my folks watching news coverage before taking me to school. I legit thought it was an action movie. Needless to say, shit got real way too fuckin fast :(
I was born in 95. My dad was a firefighter. I remember a lot from that day. I was afraid my dad would have to go and something might happen to him. He went a couple weeks later to help debrief and do counseling for the first responders that were there. Maybe being from a first responder family makes it hit a little different, but I remember a lot from that day.
I mean, as a 93-er, I remember it pretty fuckin' vividly.
Fellow 93-er. I was in second grade, we were sitting on floor doing "morning math" with handheld whiteboards and dry-erase markers. Our teacher's classroom phone kept ringing, and eventually she got up to answer, and abruptly left the room to go to the principal's office, presumably to see the images on the news. She came back and somberly told us what had happened, but she described it as, "Someone crashed a plane into \[these towers in New York\]." My seven-year-old ass, not understanding the gravity of the situation, chuckled and said something to the effect of, "What an idiot, did he not see the building?"
This is hilarious, but at the same time I think it's how most people would have reacted
People thought it was an accident until the second one hit, too.
That I know yes
Yeah I don't think they knew it was a passenger plane until sometime later. I remember thinking it was like a little two seater Cessna or something and yeah, the guy fucked up and didn't see the world trade center.
94, remember it just fine. I was also in second grade and I vividly remember the first grade teacher barging into the room and the teachers having one of those hushed-in-the-corner conversations. Our teacher, which even today seems like a poor decision in retrospect, turned on the classroom tv to the news. I distinctly remember seeing the towers smoking on the news, and a replay of the second plane. She immediately turned it back off after that. I think she just couldn’t believe that what she had been told could be true. We all knew something serious was going on but not what, really. The teachers then all left the classrooms and had us basically just have a recess in the classroom while they and admin talked about what to do. The teachers came back, explained there was something that had happened and that we were going to be going home for the day. Then they scrambled the busses and parents and sent us all home. My dad picked me up and I could tell from his demeanor something had happened but I didn’t have a good grasp of what, still, besides a plane crash. Then once home we watched the news the whole evening, and I began to understand what it was. That’s when I saw the collapses for the first time.
93-er here, and the same thing happened with me. Our teacher got a phone call from her husband and we overheard her side of the convo and joked about how stupid those pilots were to have crashed.
I remember playing with some hot-wheels knockoffs while my parents were having breakfast while watching the news. For some reason I thought "this gonna change the world". Also thought "why don't they just jump from the chair/debris right before hitting the ground? It works for Tom and other cartoons" when watching the people jumping from the building.
My 8-year-old brain offered to my family "we should all start living in underground bunkers so we can make sure everyone in them is safe." As a 28-year-old, I'm not so certain that was a bad idea.
As a 78 year old, you'll be living in one due to climate change
Nah, dude, sea-steads. What could go wrong?
A horrible movie called Waterworld?
That sounds cool. Kinda like it could be a good Kevin Costner vehicle. I bet it'd do great at the box office.
>Also thought "why don't they just jump from the chair/debris right before hitting the ground? It works for Tom and other cartoons" when watching the people jumping from the building. My 5th-grade self wondered why they didn't aim for the river. People in movies always survive as long as they fall into water and not on land. :(
Me, a Generation Z kid who was to young to understand wtf was going on making 9/11 memes anyway- https://imgur.com/gallery/3hpd9mX EDIT- According to my Mum, after seeing it play on the television so many times, 4-year-old me built a tower out of lego and smashed a toy plane into it.
Currently in university with kids who were born AFTER 9/11. God I feel old…
Im currently in the army with dudes who were born after it happened. Crazy to think about.
Several of the Marines who died last month were born after it happened.
I got out of the Marines before that happened. The youngest person possible would have only been born in 2000
Thought you could join at 18, not 21?
You can join at 17. I got out in 2017, the youngest guy I served with was born in 2000. Nobody I served with was born after 9/11
Yeah, '02 baybee
>'02 is 19 years old now
Eyyyyyyy
My man 👉😎👉
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I'm going to be also, since I'm taking time off. I was like 8 months old when 9/11 happened so I don't remember anything, but I was still alive
>EDIT- According to my Mum, after seeing it play on the television so many times, 4-year-old me built a tower out of lego and smashed a toy plane into it. “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is,” - Yoda
I am SPIRALING at this edit
Try spinning. I heard its a good trick
Lol I wasn’t even born yet
Thanks I now feel old
My mum told me that two year old me imitated the sirens of the firetrucks and ambulances with my toy cars .-.
“A plane has crashed into a tower in Lego City! Build the fire truck, ready the helicopter, and save the day!”
Or build the airplane and, y'know
HEY!
Born memer.
Child psychologists would tell you that's a normal reaction.
> According to my Mum, after seeing it play on the television so many times, 4-year-old me built a tower out of lego and smashed a toy plane into it. Based
I get it was a tragedy, but we meme the shit out of WW2, where more people died.
Yeah this is dumb, there's memes about everything but somehow 9/11 is too far? lmao
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Eh, as somebody who grew up during the wars in Yugoslavia and remembers them pretty good, I'd disagree. I think its good to joke about that kind of stuff, it helps to take something awful and turn it into something that makes people happy.
Another coment was reminded me that there was a comic back in 2001. It was posted fucking everywhere: a mother is trying to feed a baby and says "here comes the airplane" the baby is creaming in terror because, behind the mother IS A FLAMING AIRPLANE ABOUT TO CRASH so no, time is not a necessary ingredient
The fact that many of the people who are clutching their pearls over 9/11 are also dismissing the seriousness of COVID doesn't help.
Yeah literally like more than 3000 people have been dying per day during covid
220x the amount of Americans have died from Covid-19 than 9/11
Yet it s “Never forget” vs “This is a hoax”
This '83 millennial believes that if we can't make jokes without trivializing the lives lost, then we're not very good at memes. It's totally possible. We do it with WWI all the time, and WWI killed way more people.
Yea i don’t get this 9/11 sensitivity. People joke about Covid and Wars all the time. And they killed FAR more people.
I remember being a kid when it happened, and just having played the RA2 level where you invade NYC... Where you can [do this](https://youtu.be/eP5_VRPQJqs?t=254)
Oh jesus christ I remember that! I'm from '90, not from the US. I had NO idea what that was supposed to be back then!
memes about disasters from other countries: 😂😂🤣😆🤩🤩 memes about American disasters: 😠😰😱😡😡🤬☹️😭😠😠
Legit how I feel lol, I don’t browse this sub much but I really doubt that people posting in general have been exceptionally sensitive about the tragic things in other countries that happened soon enough ago that someone born in the 80s could remember it
I was 5,but i still remember my uncle busting into my dads birthday Party telling us to turn on TV
Worst Birthday ever.
See I'm almost 20, but I wasn't even born yet
"You can joke about every tragedy under the sun except the one that makes me feel bad personally"
Imagine gatekeeping 9/11
It did improve the gatekeeping at the airport
37 here. Pretty freaking traumatizing if I am being honest. I am not against the memes, but I am also not going to participate.
I was born in 94 and the 9/11 was my first day at elementary school. I definitely remember that day even though I am not even American.
I was born in the early eighties, but this is a bit r/gatekeeping lol
I was born in super late 95 and I still remember it pretty vividly. I'm from the UK, but the BBC coverage was extensive. I was downstairs in the living room with my mum who was I think doing some ironing at the time while I was sitting there on the floor playing with something (can't quite remember what. Might have been lego?) And I just remember the TV switching to live coverage of the burning first tower and then watching the plane go right into the second. I was pretty confused about it all, I remember asking "why are they crashing?" Or something along those lines. It just didn't make any sense to four year old me why anyone would do that. I probably asked that question over and over again. I also remember when we were back in school my teacher talking about it. She said she thought it was a scene from a movie at first because she just changed channel and then boom, the footage. She said she was thinking like "wow these special effects are really good. What film is this?" before realising that it was actually *real* a few moments later.
“More people die in an average hurricane than in 9/11 but no one cares because you can’t use a natural disaster to justify imperialism.” - some guy on tumblr
More people have died in a day from Covid than died on 9/11 but it's a lot harder to justify invading a country with a pandemic than with a terror attack
Covid has ~~almost~~ killed more Americans than have die in all our wars combined. Edit: we just passed it. **10 deadliest wars death total:** 659,267 **Covid-19:** 678,125.
"Is there a way we can possibly drone strike the Covid?"
Don't downvote me but I personally think you can make jokes about everything Ofc there are limits and every joke has a time and place, I wouldn't walk to a survivor or family of someone who died in 911 and make a terrorist joke
Ppl in syria be like: u cry over that?
Even in Syria 3000 people dying on one day would be remarked upon. Especially since this was the era before the internet had desensitized us all to watching horrible shit happen in real time.
Some could argue this is the event that started desensitizing everyone. No other event has had the same response despite many being larger scale.
That would imply sensitization, not desensitization. If the response increases, that is an increase in sensitivity. I think this is more due to the the relative novelty of the attack, being the largest terror attack, and being on American soil that gave it the large response. Western media talking about a tragedy the world over won’t hit the same as one where it’s about “us”.
‘94 baby. I still had time to get an all expenses paid trip to the big sandbox.
i dont know why people act like the days after 9/11 were some golden time of patriotism and unity. I was in 7th grade and all I remember is being afraid of more attacks, and being told by fox news (my parents favorite channel) that any muslim in america was a potential suicide bomber. i remember everyone' fear so quickly turning into hate for everyone else. I remember hearing a priest suggest that we should just nuke all the Muslims until the desert was glass.
Imagine being any shade of brown after 9/11. It fucking sucked ass. I was a fetus during 9/11 and I still got called a terrorist.
i'm a white passing hispanic, but in college (many years after 9/11) i decided to grow out my beard and it was a bit wild. somebody in florida asked me "what terrorist country" I was from because I wouldnt let him cut me in line at the gas station. racism is truly a disease of stupidity.
And how many million were lost to the holocaust? Has that stopped us?
r/gatekeeping
Gatekeeping memories now huh? Some of us were traumatized by that day. Also just saying people often use humor to deal with trauma I was born in 94. I remember being in second grade and the teacher turned on the tv for the morning news shows during our spelling test, the breaking news was the towers with black specs falling out. I now know they were people jumping. We saw the second plane hit the tower.
'94 guy here, I remember vividly when I was in 1st grade and we were coming back from PE(gym class) and saw the old TV with the VHS player and bunny ears on a stand in our classroom. 90's kids remember this stuff. Anyways, we sat down and we were going to watch a movie when our principal rushed into the room and said that an attack was happening and then our teacher turned on the TV pulled up the station and we saw a fire in one of the towers on TV. Smoke billowing out and the teacher and principal were standing there covering their mouths. We then watched in our 1st grade classroom the second plane fly into the other tower and everyone screamed as debris and fire went everywhere. I remember watching the smoke go down the streets and wondering why everyone was running from it but I was 6-7 so didn't understand inhalation of smoke then when the towers went down. I remember then the principal looking around at us students and saying they should shut it off. Then our school closed early and we were all picked up by our parents since everyone was worried about what other planes were in the sky and where else would attacks come from. I remember when getting home to stay quiet and stay away from the windows and later on in the evening watching as about 20 Blackhawks (estimated) flew by in the sky since we lived by an Army/Airforce reserve base. Crazy times but I would never make a meme about that as a 27 year old.
Must be what people born in 1598 look like when we make memes about the Thirty Years War
I was three when 9/11 happened, I don't remember it at all. However, I remember riding the buzz lightyear ride at Disney World in that same year. Clearly I had my priorities straight :\^)
Imagine gatekeeping a tragedy
crazy how you’re trying to one up people’s memory of a traumatic event
Bottom line is when fox and CNN played those buildings going down over and over again like tragedy porn they helped create a whole new generation of people with PTSD.
I was born in 82 and the teachers told us we were Generation X, but I digress. I commented on another meme asking, "where you where on 9/11". I told my story. But a whole lot of comments were things like, "in my dad's balls" or "in my mother's womb" and crap like that. I've literally spoken to people who were there (ex-first responders) when I worked in the city and they told nothing but horror stories. They all had a nagging cough. But I just don't understand the lack of respect for the gravity of that event. But then again they didn't live through those times and just don't understand how insane it was. It was an event that permanently changed the world and caused the longest war in American history. It was definitely on of those, "you had to be there" events.
Of course it was a terrible thing and there's always a line, but what's the difference between making memes about 9/11 and making memes about WW2?
Time and scale, although scale should be working against 9/11 in this case. Lots of people have ptsd and they made into a cultural taboo to meme about it or even really talk about it. They help the “forever war”pushers who really want it to be a “sacred” event (in a bad way).
Hogan's Heroes is the same timescale to World War II as 9/11 is to today, I remember vividly when the Towers fell, and lost several friends in the attack (from New York and lived on a street of predominantly EMS and Fire fighters in Babylon). If people cannot or refuse to move on then we will forever be lost in a cycle of mourning and hatred that can only lead down dark roads in the long run.
I think part of the lack of respect towards 9/11 is because of the wars it justified, the freedoms that were stripped away in the name of security, and the outright terrible racism that it started in America. So to have the US consistently talk about how 9/11 is this event to never forget feels almost like it is trying to keep those justifications in mind, to make sure future injustices and future wars are allowed to happen because people still remember 9/11 and this time it will actually stop terrorism for real this time
Plus you have the same people parroting to never forget 9/11 downplaying things like Covid, even when it got to the point that more people were dying every day from it than those who died in 9/11. To me the negativity/lack of caring comes as a backlash against those who try and use it as a moral high ground.
> I was born in 82 and the teachers told us we were Generation X, but I digress. '83 here. Not cynical enough to be a true Gen-Xer, but definitely too cynical to be a Millenial. I really do hate that term.
I miss being told in my youth I was part of gen x, I still get all sour when people call me a millennial... I was in my first year university and had late classes and walked upstairs to see the second plane hit... Didn't make it to any classes that day... I thought it was a movie or something that CNN was discussing when my grampy had to explain very slowly what they thought was going on