"BKosher84" (bkosher84)
09/11/2015 at 11:15 • Filed to: None
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"BKosher84" (bkosher84)
09/11/2015 at 11:15 • Filed to: None | 4
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My three month old son will never know the full effect of what happened on 9/11. He will read in the history books that today was the worst tragedy in United States history, but will never “feel” the impact it had on this country..
Sorry, just a random thought.
Takuro Spirit
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:19 |
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We asked our girls yesterday if they knew what today was going to be, and if they had anything planned at school and they looked at us all crazy... My oldest was born the night/morning of hurricane Katrina, and even that she barely understands. Maybe when she’s older.
WiscoProud
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:22 |
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I realized a year or two ago that my wife's brother and wife (mid-20s) don't remember it nearly as vividly as I do (mid-30s). I was in my first semester of college, and basically watched the coverage all day, including seeing the towers go down live. They were 14-15 years old and in middle or high school. My friends got deployed soon after, they didn't know anyone sent, etc.
nermal
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:22 |
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He will feel the effects any time he takes a commercial flight.
It’s no different than other tragedies or triumphs - they change from generation to generation. Just like when the space shuttle blew up, or the US beating the Russians in hockey, or the moon landing, or the Kennedy assassination.
Every generation has their defining moment. The next one will have their’s, good or bad.
/deep thoughts
ttyymmnn
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:23 |
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Well, I wasn’t there on December 7, 1941. And while I never personally experienced the fear of that day, I can still appreciate how others must have felt. I’m not certain that being emotionally removed from a historic event necessarily lessens its impact on us. It is up to us never to forget history, and to pass along its importance to the next generation so that they might know about these events and how they affected the world. To be honest, I’m glad my children were spared the emotional onslaught of that day. I just hope they never experience a similar event in their lifetime, but I have to admit, it is probably more likely than not that they will.
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> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:24 |
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I was 5 when it happened, so I don't remember it either. I think my parents hid it from me, but I do remember going to a one-year anniversary memorial service at my church. Funnily enough, I looked at my car books the whole time.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:25 |
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This year’s High School Freshmen were born after it. Makes me feel old.
MonkeePuzzle
> ttyymmnn
09/11/2015 at 11:31 |
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my son was scheduled to be born on December 7th, when we announced we were pregnant most folks said “neat” “congrats” etc., however my wife’s Japanese-American family had an immediate and visceral reaction to the date. Clearly they feel that date unlike those of us who just read about it, and even more so given the conflict of their dual heritage.
Your boy, BJR
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:38 |
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I remember school getting out early, both my parents being there to pick me up (which was the only time that ever happened) and going to Sandy Hook to see the smoke plume. I had both my parents pick me up. Other kids didn’t....
I was in 2nd grade at the time, I probably remember it so vividly because of living so close to it.
jariten1781
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:48 |
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I had an, I’m old, moment when we were chatting at work about when the Berlin Wall came down and one of the newer folks was sitting in the back kind of looking awkward. Asked her ‘what’s wrong?’ and she goes...something to the effect of “I wasn’t even born yet. I think there was a chapter about it in history class during high school, but I don’t really remember it.’
Gah!
cazzyodo
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 11:48 |
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I thought of that, too. I realized that this happened while I was in middle school...and that there are now middle school kids who see the country get solemn and contemplative without fully knowing why.
The changes that have occurred in the past 14 years? We lived them. We know the before, during and after. A good portion of the population only knows the after.
And this is worldwide, not just in the US. The ramifications were on a global scale and it staggers me that such a large portion of the population wasn’t around for something so jarring.
sebdel
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 12:25 |
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When the 9/11 happened the first thing I though was how it was the same date as 9/11 1973 in Chile and how no one in the US and most of the world would know about that story anymore. Changes with generations, also with cultures and countries, your three month son and my 1 week son will have their own generation moment..
X37.9XXS
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 12:34 |
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the worst tragedy in United States history,
Some perspective may be needed
Deaths as immediate result of 9/11 attack - 2996
Deaths due to “Operation Desert Manhood”- 176,000 - 189,000
Motor vehicle accident deaths in 2001 in US - 42,196
The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!)
> BKosher84
09/11/2015 at 13:13 |
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Have him watch the video referenced here . I wasn’t in NYC when it happened, but I was old enough feel the terror and shock as things unfolded that day. When I first watched that documentary, it brought back that hollow feeling of shock because it truly felt like I was there, watching. Knowing how it ends make the earlier videos even more shocking.
I’m not sure if it will trigger those same feelings to someone who was born years afterward, but I think it captures the terror better than any other documentary or story has, and puts you in the right frame of mind to view the years that followed.
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BKosher84
> X37.9XXS
09/11/2015 at 14:50 |
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The flaw in your theory is that it took 14 years to get those stats.. Not one day.