Where Were You on 9/11?

[*jason*]

(09-08-2020, 05:02 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: 8th grade language arts. Blue period. Mrs. Eustis. I grew up on the CT/MA border and their was a mini-golf place called "The Twin Silos". When the announcement came on I though there was a small plane accident. Then in Yellow period History with Mr. Savoie the TVs came out and kids really realized the magnitude of it all. My uncle worked on Wall St. and took into the WTC every morning. Was a couple blocks away. Always would say what he remembered most were all the women's shoes that were left in the street as people were running.

I've been thinking a lot about 9/11 recently with all the coronavirus stuff going on. I always thought that nothing would surpass 9/11 as THE event of my generation. I considered it to be THAT thing I would undoubtedly tell any future kids or grandkids about, much like my old man telling me about the moon landing, or JFK's assassination.

It's wild to me that my one year old won't remember any of this, assuming humanity gets its stuff together over the next year. 9/11 certainly changed a lot, but Covid has certainly overtaken it in my mind.

9/11 and Covid 19 are very similar in one way. Both of them destroyed the idea that our geographic location insulated us from the dangers that "they" face "over there".