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Kimmalah
Nov 14, 2005

Basically just a baby in a trenchcoat.


klosterdev posted:

I've heard plenty of "where were you on 9/11" stories, which usually involve where they were when they learned about it, but what I want to know is what was the post-attack hysteria like? What were the first few days of the country/world like after an event like that without any real information or explanation?

There are plenty of documentaries about 9/11 out there that do a pretty good job of capturing the feeling of that day. If I had to sum it up, (to me anyway) people were mostly shocked and completely bewildered about what the hell was going on at first. Then there was a lot of fear about what might happen next since it seemed like planes were just crashing all over and speculation about who was behind it. I live really close to a chemical weapons storage site, so here we had a lot of dumb rumor-mongering about someone attacking that.

The days after that - lots and lot and lots of little American flags on people's cars. :911:

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