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I was a senior in high school. Driving to school, the attacks were announced on the radio. It was a stupid morning show, so it was really strange to hear the DJs being completely serious. There was a lot of confusion about what was going on. I walked to my first class and told the teacher. He grabbed a portable TV from his office and turned on CNN. We watched the second tower fall. I remember thinking it looked just like a movie, but knowing it was real. I was on the other coast, so there was a sense of distance from the events. Afterwards was hard. I remember wondering when everything would go back to normal--the late 90s were a glorious time of money and a general sense of invincibility. It seemed like every other day doing something, traveling especially, had new rules designed to make you "safer." Most people didn't care because they were genuinely scared. The sense of fear was pervasive and there really wasn't much push back until Obama was running for president. Even now, I think the intense fear-mongering in politics is a reflection of that post 9/11 environment.
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