where were you on 9/11? [i.e. do you have memories from ~Sept 2001]

resolved Jan 20

alive, and I remember where I was

alive, but not old enough to remember

not born yet

all this talk of birthdays and reading the attempts at giving a 23 year old an age-related existential crisis prompted this non-scientific Manifold age poll.
I have my theories, but: what's the general spread here?

also, to be clear: you don't have to be American or actually remember where you were. it's a pillar date reference - were you old enough to have memories in September 2001, or not?

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At work. my boss answered the phone to another partner and replied "What's the punchline?" assuming it was a joke.

I was at work, in my first job.

My mother picked me up from kindergarten (beforehand, she picked my brother up from school where she was informed) and we spent the rest of the day watching the news. I didn't understand the situation back then, just the emotions around it and that is mostly what I remember.

I was a freshman in college in my dorm room at Miami University watching on beginning before the second plane hit. Still hard to think about it without getting emotional honestly.

Before there was 9/11 (as we say in US. Pronounced "nine-eleven") there was the "Kennedy Assassination." (Quotemarks not to express doubt but to ringfence.) Americans who were shocked by the news that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor used to express dismay that Young People Today wouldn't remember that day -- because too excited over Kennedy Assassination, or burning their draft cards and bras, or listening to rock and roll music, or Drugs.

@shankypanky it's a cold hard world, keep engaging with it.

There used to be a clear definition of "terrorism" but it got muddled during my lifetime. The two main points were one, a non-state actor is doing it (is Ireland a nation? Kurdistan? How to know? Who says?) and two, terror IS the weapon.

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okay - so far not exactly what I expected tbh

@shankypanky What were you expecting?

@snazzlePop high proportion in the 'I have memories from then' bracket but it's entirely possible the youth don't care for polls 👶

@SirCryptomind is this at least a mildly comforting start? 😅

*_*

@SirCryptomind I was in English class and we were also watching until they eventually decided everyone in the school should probably go home.

@shankypanky i was in school, but in a low enough grade that they didn’t tell us, or do anything out of the ordinary. didn’t know anything was up until i got home and my parents were waiting for me.