I was living in the big city for a change, and had a roommate. He actually CRIED about it.
I only remember seeing it on tv after getting home from elementary school
back when people used to care about others life, sounds like the 90s!
this! didnt da noos say people were mailing anthrax to high target individuals for a while?
Wait what you were in 11th grade? How old are you now? Wouldn’t you have to be like 40?
There were also fears of a military draft immediately following 9/11 and during "the surge" in Iraq during 2006 and 2007 right?
I'm mid 30s so close. I found out in a homeroom class in 11th grade for attendance. Teacher was watching the news, so I don't think they knew officially yet.
Wasn't paying too close attention, but man the movies that came out really played that patriortism pride. Cucks willing to die for their country. JFL my country hates me, fuck em.
Bruh that’s crazy. Fucking sand niggers were celebrating it.
Yes and lets not forget the dancing Israelis.
The music too for like a year after was full of patriotism right?
Ru old? Sound like you were an adult or old teen when 911 happened
Yeah I was like 18-20 range
Brutal Millennialpill ngl
The flags on cars is how our meme generation handled it, I had one as well.
We should, because if you take two brain cells and rub them together it's pretty obvious they weren't involved.
I remember it was the top news story at the time. The New York Times devoted the whole fromt page to just the one story:
Thought this was a run of the mill screenshot of Yahoo in 2001 at first but the headlines in the screenshot and the day of the week and time displayed on the top right convinced me otherwise. Fascinating stuff ngl
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I remember that clearly. The 24/7 news cycle that mainly aired fluff and feel good stories turned into non stop replays and fear mongering about future terrorist attacks on American soil.
Of course. It all unfolded in the morning from 6 am to 11 am with the main window of carnage being from 8:46 am to 10:28 am.
And Americans were particularly tuned into movies and pop culture so that association to everything seeming like a movie must have been even more real. Aside from hardliner conspiracy theorists like those that developed permanent negative feelings toward the government after the Waco ATF incident people generally believed whatever aired on the news. And the news was a lot less flashy and sensationalist then today so whatever aired was all the more convincing imo.
There was some security but not a lot. Metal detectors mainly. They also allowed passengers to go watch the pilots flying the plane sometime and the door to the cockpit was not usually locked.
Before 9/11 hijackings were thought to end in passengers being held hostage but mostly alive and not murder-suicide attacks. There were such hijackings that occurred in India
I remember that clear feeling and futuristic, optimistic sentiment too. tbh western countries peaked in 1999/2000 and have gotten a lot more dysfunctional, cynical and messed up since then.After 2000 was supposed to be a golden age. And for a little while it felt that way. I remember when 2000 felt like a million years away. In other words, it goes by fast kids, before you know it you're old. I know I didn't believe it either. That's why they say youth is wasted on the young
Everyone freaked out around me and thought the world was gonna end since retard America was gonna WHIP OUT DA NOOKZ and start it with the Middle East for keeps. I just laughed since I was going through school at the time and figured all my studying and homework was for nothing (which it eventually was anyway but not because of 9/11)
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Just two months later 4 to 5 Paki gunmen got shot while trying to enter the Indian parliament, maybe Pakis wanted that mass mobilisation to move troops to the eastern side to allow Taliban families into safety. al Qaeda used that late 90s nascent internet very much to its advantage, in that sense it was a true multinational terrorist organisation without any unifying physical presence. Dunno why US invaded Baathist Iraq tho, in that sense these nutjobs deserve each other's asses. I was barely some months old back then.
I meant more that there have been airplane hijackings in India where the passengers are held for ransom and was asking you and legendarywristcel is you remember that
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Imo because of personal grievances. Bush Jr. wanted to finish what Bush Sr. hadn't in the Gulf War.
Yes It was IC814 hijacking, saw something on that on NatGeo. Once again they're some Pakis who boarded the flight in Nepal and made it refuel at Amritsar on their way to Kandahar.I meant more that there have been airplane hijackings in India where the passengers are held for ransom and was asking you and legendarywristcel is you remember that
Why Vajpayee govt chose to swap 3 terrorists with 160 passengers of IC 814 two decades ago
For 55 minutes, when it seemed that the hijacked plane could land in Amritsar, the crisis management group in Delhi acted without urgency.
Imo because of personal grievances. Bush Jr. wanted to finish what Bush Sr. hadn't in the Gulf War.
That's how hijacking was proposed to end. Either that or the plane exploded in mid air. Nothing to do with planes being flown into buildings Although the possibility of 9/11 style airplane attacks was not an unknown possibility prior to 9/11.
India and Pakistan have been enemy countries since the British insisted on dividing India before they left. They did the same in the Middle East with drawing arbitrary borders. The eternal anglo.
