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I'm from the UK and was 13 when the attacks happened. My mum told me about it coming out of school and I went straight home to watch the news on the TV. I distinctly remember thinking this was pretty big at the time, but kind of considered it like a natural disaster in another country. Something horrible, but a bit too far away to really affect us. The response in my school was definitely pretty muted - the July 7th London bombings 4 years certainly had much more of an impact on us at the actual time of the bombing.
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For you Americans out there, how prevalent were opinions like this:Kramer on 9/11 posted:Not to belittle the signifigance of these events, but you do realize that this means a whole slew of "anti terrorist" and probably "anti violence" laws will be passed through congress. compared to this: IRQ on 9/11 posted:somebody will motherfucking pay I've heard from a bunch of people that America basically went crazy for a bit after 9/11, but how did that actually manifest to you? It's an alien concept to me since even after the 7/7 attacks in the UK (obviously much smaller scale) there was not a real sense of hysteria at any point, and i'm curious about stories like the military being on lockdown and Tendai having to basically stay indoors for a week.
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Sep 30, 2015 17:10
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Mezzanine posted:Without any other people I knew hanging around me to react to, and no TV, I was only a little disturbed. "drat, the World Trade Centers are gone" was about all I thought. I then went to get my hair cut. All the TVs in the hair salon were on MTV or something and no one seemed to care. Then I went to go shopping, but the mall started to close at around 3:00PM or so, so I headed home. I called my professor on the way back and he said that classes had been cancelled. I think this sums up my feelings from the day perfectly. Like, I saw the attacks in the afternoon on the news, thought 'that's really terrible', but didn't feel scared or anything or think the world was going to change overnight, which seems very different to a lot of Americans i've spoken to who felt that this was the end of the optimism of the 90's. I guess the 90's wasn't a great time for the UK, at least compared to the US - there certainly isn't the same kind of nostalgia for the 'bright future of the 90's' as some people have put it. Was the last big terrorist attack in the USA the Oklahoma City bombing prior to this, or had there been any others in between? For people who remember the OKC bombing was it just the scale that felt different or something else?
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