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Someone woke me up to tell me a plane hit the tower, and I thought they meant a little prop plane and went back to bed. Then I woke up just in time to see the first tower fall.
My first reaction was the sinking feeling that this would be the ammunition to steer us into fascism.
I remember people not being able to contextualize the targets at all. People would be afraid whatever pissant thing they cared about was going to be attacked, the mall, the methadone clinic, the stadium.
The bloodlust was crazy. You couldn't get through to anyone. I know this is about 9/11 but, like the whole Iraq thing in the aftermath felt so much like Gaza today where you're just trying to scream and no one cares.
I was barely an adult when it happened. This is spot-on. Even outside the US, here in Canada, the bloodlust was very real. I was starting to become aware of PNAC in the US, and worried about what war insanity they were about to drag the whole world into.
Yeah, the knock on effect it had on Canada was real. People I knew who were Proud To Be Canadian were all of sudden Real American Patriots. It was fairly muted where i grew up due to its isolation, but visiting family in bigger towns you might as well have been flying Old Glory and singing the star spangled banner. Some of my cousins signed up for the army within the next month.
that was my reaction, too
"Oh, there's gonna be a war because of this." 😞
it is exactly the same feeling
at least I have you all this time around ❤️ nice to know it's not just me