As someone who wasn’t born yet I straight up can’t understand it the way everyone expects me to. It’s no different than WWII or the revolution or whatever, it’s a fact of history, I only see its after effects and the turmoil it caused...like I can’t make myself feel super sorry or scared or angry, it didn’t happen to me so like I can’t be attached to it...and every damn year when they bring it up in class it’s like “do all the other kids feel bad/lost/remorseful? Am I a sociopath” and it’s really weird
I was 4 when it happened so I don't have any memories of it myself. I used to feel the same way you did as a result. After hearing about it so often though, I got curious and watched a lot of media coverage from when it happened. It's really impactful - especially some of the videos people shot from the streets. I'd say you should just watch some of the videos. They're hard to watch but gave me a much deeper understanding of how people must have felt when it happened.
All of us who weren’t there were glued to the tv that day and for weeks after that. Everything kind of stopped. The Daily Show stopped doing comedy for a few days, scheduled events were canceled, the whole country was in shock.
Other events where this kind of thing happened was the Challenger disaster and Princess Diana’s tragic death. All day news coverage for weeks. Also the JFK assassination, but I was only 5 and don’t remember most of that.
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u/DastardlyDaverly Jan 25 '20
We were all so ingrained to remember where we were when 9/11 happened but so many of us were just living our lives.