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[DragoonKain]

One of the things I often think about in history is the chain reaction of events that ultimately lead to something big. And how many events spanning decades that led to the al qaeda and Bin Laden. And then obviously everything that has happened since 9/11. And I often wonder if history was different in just one of those events, if it would’ve completely changed the future.

 

[Aggelos]

I was watching some of the Netflix documentary, but I have trouble watching a lot of this stuff all over again. It's too unpleasant.

I'm watching the Netflix "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror" documentary as we speak.
Truly heart-breaking... Your heart sinks...

 

[Liljagare]

I still remember how empty and quiet the skies became. Driving to my US home the day after, was wierd to see cropdusters that had just landed in a field, due to the no fly situation.

And the stink around the entire New York region, like burnt brakes on a train.

I was supposed to fly home to Sweden the day after, but, that obviously didnt happen.

It really was a mark of a new era, in so many ways. And, nothing became "for the better".

 

[Coolwhhip]

Just watched the 9/11 thing on Netflix. It makes the US look so bad with their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

 

[DragoonKain]

I was thinking about Howard Stern's famous 9/11 show and how it would've been received if social media and cancel culture existed in 2001. He said a lot of aggressive stuff in it. Like we need to start dropping atom bombs and make the enemy's people suffer and use chemical weapons if we have to. We need to make them feel the wrath of America for this.

And obviously, when you're emotional it's understandable, but I wonder if the current mentality of society was around back then if he'd have been fired. Or would the reaction have been largely the same because of how horrific 9/11 was.

 

[haxan7]

Just watched the 9/11 thing on Netflix. It makes the US look so bad with their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

It’s Netflix.

 

[Virt McPolygon]

It’s Netflix.

The reaction has been seen and criticized globally for years. Netflix is just a late fart.

 

[haxan7]

The reaction has been seen and criticized globally for years. Netflix is just a late fart.

Thanks for letting me know

 

[Virt McPolygon]

Thanks for letting me know

Just hopping on the "pointing out the obvious" train

 

[Kagey K]

While I get it was an American Tragedy, the global effects are still felt to this day, and it seems like escalation upon escalation are carried all off the backs of this.

Compile that with the COVID pandemic, and we have a generation, who have lived through 2 of the biggest globally impactful series of events in human history.

 

[Droxcy]

I remember coming home early from elementary school as soon as we got there and every kid wondering why. I get home to see my mom in front of the TV panicking all her family are from and were in NYC that day luckily not near the towers but god what a day in history.

A good podcast got released today from shawn ryan show with the police commissioner at the time hearing him talk about his efforts that day really open your eyes

 

[MacReady13]

I remember going to bed on the night of the 11th (here in Melbourne, Australia) around 10pm or so and just before going to sleep as I had a 6am start next morning seeing on channel 10 news Sandra Sully saying a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center but no real details had emerged at that stage, so I went to sleep.
Next morning I woke up, still oblivious to what was going on. Got to work a d the world had changed. Most of us (I was a K Mart worker then) just stood around all day watching the news on the tv. As I was only 21 I went home to my parents and vividly remember the news that night. My dad got home from work and he said to me he couldn’t believe what was happening. That’s when the magnitude of the situation truly hit me as my dad was a clever guy and not prone to hyperbole.
I have tried to tell my kids about that day and it’s hard to explain to them the shock of it all. They see the videos. They watch the footage but it can’t sink in how different life was before 9/11 and after it. The world will never be the same.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

All the footage of the second plane hitting is chilling, holy shit.

 

[Aggelos]

 

[Vestal]

It’s Netflix.

Umm it’s valid criticism though. If we had kept our eye on the ball and not strayed into Iraq, a lot of the headaches in the last 15 years would have been avoided.

It’s a widely accepted fact that we fucked up the whole aftermath of 9/11 by using it to justify our incursion into Iraq along with Drone Strikes and the PRISM surveillance program. We were too gung-ho to pass laws to prevent another 9/11, thst we didn’t stop and think these laws (Patriot Act and the War Powers given to POTUS) and really narrow their focus instead of enacting such open-ended laws.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Umm it’s valid criticism though. If we had kept our eye on the ball and not strayed into Iraq, a lot of the headaches in the last 15 years would have been avoided.

It’s a widely accepted fact that we fucked up the whole aftermath of 9/11 by using it to justify our incursion into Iraq along with Drone Strikes and the PRISM surveillance program. We were too gung-ho to pass laws to prevent another 9/11, thst we didn’t stop and think these laws (Patriot Act and the War Powers given to POTUS) and really narrow their focus instead of enacting such open-ended laws.

Why are drone strikes a proper noun?

 

[PhoenixTank]

Fucking chilling video.

While I get it was an American Tragedy, the global effects are still felt to this day, and it seems like escalation upon escalation are carried all off the backs of this.

Compile that with the COVID pandemic, and we have a generation, who have lived through 2 of the biggest globally impactful series of events in human history.

I'd probably add the subprime mortgage crisis to make that a third. A minor third perhaps given the effects and ripples being mostly US & Europe IIRC.

 

[-Minsc-]

Was at my parents during my null years after I had graduated from high school. Live with Regis and Kelly was on the TV. Then it wasn't.

 

[Aggelos]

The Nat Geo "9/11 One Day in America" was pretty chilling and gripping. Featured archival footage, eyewitnesses, survivors, with new footage never seen before.

9/11: One Day in America - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[CrankyJay™]

While I get it was an American Tragedy, the global effects are still felt to this day, and it seems like escalation upon escalation are carried all off the backs of this.

Compile that with the COVID pandemic, and we have a generation, who have lived through 2 of the biggest globally impactful series of events in human history.

I mean, not for nothing, but WWI and WWII happened in a relatively small timespan. Hell, there was a pandemic in 1918-1920 on top of that.

 

[cortadew]

I was at work that day, i remember my father being in complete shambless after hearing the news.

The fact that we were in those towers a couple of years before the event made us even more in disbilief.

I hope you and your father are doing good now

 

[The Stig]

yep. i watched it on TV live. I was in 6th form college.

I still remember the way they fell looked SO MUCH like a controlled demolition. (not that im saying thats what happened of course)