If there is a reason why I'm choosing to draw this, it's because I want to remember as I remember seeing it on TV.
You just don't believe something like this when it happens because it's so surreal to think, when you're a kid, that an event like this is real. Granted, in other countries disasters like this happen everyday, but for me and several other Americans this was a wake up call.
What we would know in mere seconds from happening in the world today, we knew in 2 - 4 minutes unless you were there yourself.
Think about that when you think about what today means for those living in the states. Crazy to think this was 22 years ago.
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very respectful and well-drawn. the old tv effect and closed-caption style of the text is very evocative of the moment. you're so right about the news moving at lightning speed now too. I actually didn't hear about it until I got called home from school, that had to have been at least 30 minutes after it happened.
Given I was about 7 when it happened one of the few things I remember was my school principal informing us about it over the intercom back at my elementary school and we all had a moment of silence. The vibe of what was going on that day was not good and I probably wasn't aware of how it was affecting my mood until reflecting on it years later.
When my mother picked me and my sister up and showed us what was going on, I couldn't comprehend what was going on and seeing it on TV was well... surreal. I even asked if it was a movie and my sister at the time was the one to point out that it was real.
Although when I rewatch these events on a yearly basis around this time I imagine what it must have been like to see or hear about it when it did happen from the perspective of someone who was an adult then. The event is too well documented that countless accounts have been posted online.
I wasn't alive when they hit, my mom was pregnant with my older brother at the time. I saw this post and I realized I had forgotten; I sometimes forget until something reminds me. I've only heard stories of those who witnessed it, and they always vividly remembered exactly where they were.
It's events like these and the COVID lockdown (there for that one) where people will always remember what they were doing, it's crazy. Thanks for making respectful posts about current events.
You aren't wrong that many of us who were alive when it happened remembered what were were doing or what was going on that day. However to be honest with you with COVID it hit very different from what happened with 9/11. At least everyone had an idea that COVID was going to happen in a matter of days.
There was no clear warning that people were aware of anything before it all transpired aside from a small group of people who suspected something was going to happen and the group of people who fall into that are few and far in-between. And I'm not talking about the people who sensed something awful was gonna happen in a matter of days like some sixth sense or premonition on what was to come.
I had a chance encounter with one who was at a New Hampshire Wal-Mart once. That account the man speak of, a fairly older African American guy who was either in his late 30's or early 40s told me about a time when worked for someone middle eastern in NYC a few days prior and saw a couple of other guys hide someone with black tarp over his head so no one would see him walking around. That guy suspected that was Bin Laden. The morning after that night he saw that the store owner laid him off only a few days before 9/11 happened.