20 years later

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A lot has been said about 9-11. I mean, really a lot. But let's leave all the political talk, all the propaganda, the geopolitics, Realpolitik, the war on terror, the social, economic, diplomatic and military consequences of this event, and just talk about the human side.

And I mean just this. I'm sure you still remember that day as if it was yesterday. I'm sure you still vividly remember where you were when the news found you, how you reacted, and what came next. What your first actions were, and how you spent the next few days. I'm even more sure you all remember what effects, direct and indirect, this event had on your life and on those of your close ones.

I know it because it's true for me too. So, care to share your story?

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Quoting this entry:

"I still remember where I was on that horrible day: I was in my parents' living room, listening to the radio when the news broke about the first plane. So, I turned on the TV. The rest of the day was bouncing between watching the news as it kept breaking, and checking in with my online friends via the Internet. We - the human race - are still coping with consequences and complications from that day, even as we're coping with choices made decades and centuries earlier that led to that day."

I remember saying this to my parents - both then still alive - as an expectation: "People will be made to die for this."

And so they were, across the decades since then.

Elsewhere on my account, I've noted other things that share this anniversary that get less notice.