Writer's Block: 9/11

[uberreiniger]

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*sigh* I promised myself I wouldn't do this. Yet here I am. I had just worked a 12 hour overnight shift as I normally did on Monday nights so I was asleep. My supervisor called and woke me up and told me the news.

I've been reading through the answers for this and what astounds me about the answers, (what few there are that aren't in cyrillic, anyway,) is that everyone responding is so young. "I was 8 years old... I was 10 years old... I was in 6th/7th/8th grade." It just... really astounds me. I haven't thought much about all the people for whom this happened just as they were really starting to get an idea of what the world was and what was around them. The closest experience I have like that is the Challenger explosion when I was in the 4th grade. But I can't pretend it was anywhere near the same. I thought I was "young" seeing it happen at 25 but I really had no idea.

Comments

[tempest-azure.livejournal.com]

I was sleeping and my mom came in and was running around the house screaming "Oh my god we got bombed!" I woke up and went to my job interview and then had a dinner date. Of course that was the only topic of conversation.

[watersaredeep.livejournal.com]

Yesterday in one of my political communities I was pretty shocked to realize that out of hundreds of comments, only a couple of us had been adults when it happened. Heck, my kids were older than a lot of the commenter's when 9-11 happened!

I've been thinking that 9-11 and our decade of war has been peoples entire lives or close to it. How sad.

[lucretiasheart.livejournal.com]

I was 31-- so yeah, 10 years ago wasn't that far for me, but for most--?

[ravenbrenna.livejournal.com]

I was in my Gr. 9 English class when it happened.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That would make you an old maid compared to so many of the responders!

[ravenbrenna.livejournal.com]

Too true!