I was in 10th grade in high school on Long Island. It was one of those things that changes everything but you don't notice it until you look back. My old man was FDNY and was down at the dig for the next six months, he still gets his 9/11 physical every year. My brother enlisted and went to Iraq for multiple tours. Came back a different man.
Lost friends in those wars. Heard from one of my marine veteran buddies recently, he needed some money because he had destroyed a tire hitting a curb. He was falling asleep on the phone, on a methadone dose that could knock out a horse.
2001 was the year we started doing drugs. They tore thru my generation, taking the good ones from us and leaving the bad ones like me.
I had a teacher who gave the most impassioned speech I've ever seen the next day. Mr. Gerhardt. He was a Vietnam veteran with tenure so he could speak freely and he went off. He said he'd ride the missile over there himself like Doctor Strangelove and bomb every last one of them until the entire desert was glass. That they wouldn't be allowed to get away with it. That it was war now, that many of us would go and die. Tears streaming down his face. It was the most beautiful heartfelt patriotic speech I'd ever seen.
Not even US. Every year I watch footage, listen to calls of last moments, read stories of normal people who without thinking became heroes. Videos of people jumping. As in previous years it's hard not to cry. 9/11 was horrifying, but also for the world that was, and no longer is.
how does 9/11 reminiscence look to you, if you're under the age of--let's say 35, so that you have at most a thin or childlike recollection of the day and what came before
does it make sense how older people are reacting? do you _get_ the broadcast recordings?
Sincerely requesting Islamic terrorists to keep potentially conflicting remembrance schedules in mind - we have somewhat of a birthday collision problem at hand. Non-exhaustive research brings Brussels 2016, London 2017 (22 March) and Theo v Gogh 2004, Vienna 2020 (2 Nov) to mind
@edgefills Only visit just before closing time, better experience. Select places with higher barrier of entry. All annoyance is projection since five seconds into your trip you realized that having never read Goethe you lack any form of cultural understanding anyway.
@edgefills What are you supposed to do or feel, standing in front of The Hunters in the Snow with at least five photoshoots (not of paintings, but people in front of paintings) going on around you? Museums are dead.