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AltruisticQuit5 t1_iyf37tu wrote

What a weird fucking question. Tragedies have been happening since forever. Why are you assuming that every person on this platform holds 9/11 as the turning point for all existence jfc

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyf4i6x wrote

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The only thing still affecting us today are higher security and patriot act, both of which help the world. Under 3,000 people died on 9/11. With modern guns, bombs and drones, terrorists could do way more damage.

We lost 3,000 lives, and with the extra measures 9/11 caused, it might have saved millions.

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hagemeyp t1_iyf59i4 wrote

After watching my friends die and body parts rain from the skies

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SeasonalCitrus t1_iyf8ejf wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#831,407)

I'm with you there. And recently thinking the same.

I'm bitter about the TSA and FBI failures which allowed the attacks to happen: bitter about the innocents killed in the towers and after in so called counter-attacks; bitter it took 20 years to pull out troops, which was a waste because the Taliban took over the minute we left.

So much violence and what good came out of it all?

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jda404 t1_iyfb0m0 wrote

It didn't. I was 10 at the time, I didn't fully understand the magnitude of what happened. I remembering getting out of school super early that day, seeing a bit of the news my parents had on, and then going to play outside with my friends.

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GrandSpecter t1_iyfc3o8 wrote

The world did end that day. The world as we knew it. Even as we went back to our daily lives, so much has changed because of what happened.

You could basically feel it that day. I was in my first semester of college. I heard about it on the radio on my way to campus. First class was Art 101, and I guess the professor figured it was the sort of class we could use to process without having to ignore what was going on. He had a radio in his office next door, so he was sitting in there listening, and would pop in every 10 mins or so to give us updates. I always listened to my Walkman during that class anyway, so I was getting news from the station I always had on. That was different, too. The morning DJ's did nothing but report news breaks, and take phone calls from listeners who really just needed to talk. They stayed on for hours, way past when the morning show typically ended. It wasn't until they had been on for at least 6 or 7 hours that they finally swapped out. Didn't bother them, they could feel that we needed that sort of consistency just then, not a new DJ every couple of hours. After the art class was over, all my other classes were cancelled. Department offices were closed. I picked up lunch on the way home, tried doing homework, but couldn't get past the fact that the only reason I had that extra time was because thousands of people died that morning. My mom woke up (she slept odd hours taking care of my grandmother, and I figured waking her up wouldn't change what happened, might as well let her sleep), and after I told her what happened, we turned the TV on. Didn't matter what channel, there was nothing else on. We watched as the towers fell. Even as we tried going about what we needed to do the rest of the day, you couldn't escape it. The radio station was still taking calls, and keeping people updated, but would occasionally play an uplifting song, even if it wasn't one they typically played on that station. Everyone was on edge, because you just didn't really know what else might happen. And the feeling didn't go away over the next few days, either. With all flights grounded, you suddenly became very aware of how quiet the skies were, especially if you were anywhere near an airport, where you knew it was usually noisier than hell. Even as more days & weeks went by, you'd realize it was still sitting somewhere in your mind, even if subconsciously. Like the day my mom and I were running errands, and an airplane was coming in to land. It must've had to circle, or made a turn to land, because all of a sudden it banked hard to the left. From the angle we were at, it looked like it was about to hit the tallest building in town. It didn't, but the sheer panic we felt for those few moments... a lot different than if we'd seen a plane angled like that on 9/10. Yeah, we might've still thought it would hit the building, but we'd probably think it was a tragic accident, not a deliberate attack.

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyfd0dn wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#835,499)

2,996, including the hijackers. 2,753 in the World Trade Center, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 elsewhere. Do your research, all sources say under 3,000

>You're an idiot.

Edit: Reread your message and saw you meant outside of that. You're saying over the course of 20 years, maximum 400,000 people died? That is an absolute win for us, seeing as that is 20,000 a year. Barely makes a dent in our normal death rate of NEARLY 70,000,000 A YEAR. 20k is nothing.

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Sentient-Bread-Stick t1_iyfe6j9 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#837,929)

Reread your message and saw you meant outside of that. You're saying over the course of 20 years, maximum 400,000 people died? That is an absolute win for us, seeing as that is 20,000 a year. Barely makes a dent in our normal death rate of NEARLY 70,000,000 A YEAR. 20k is nothing.

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