[ExI] 9/11

[John Grigg]

I was in college, and my roommate told me about the attack. He was an
intelligence MOS with the U.S. Army National Guard. The guy was immediately
summoned by his commanders. I remember feeling numb from the experience of
taking in what happened. And the feeling only grew as l watched the video
footage. The only world event that affected me even more, was the fall of
the Soviet Union. But then l was a product of the cold war.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 1:49 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> In detention for not doing my homework... no recess unfortunately.
>
> My teacher was innocently grading papers and I was mindlessly watching the
> TV muted, with the closed captions on.
>
> I couldn’t quite read whole sentences yet but when I saw the first tower
> fall, I knew that something was really, really wrong.
>
> With uncharacteristic discretion I walked up to her desk and got her
> attention, then pointed to her TV.
>
> I was the first person in my school to know. She buzzed the principal and
> he immediately pulled the tornado drill, and each grade (100+ kids) got
> huddled into their own interior room while parents were called and we got
> sent home.
>
> I never saw 9/11 footage with the sound on until about 2011ish, and that’s
> when it finally had an emotional impact on me, hearing the news anchors and
> eyewitnesses and firemen freaking out.
>
> SR
>
> > On Sep 11, 2020, at 11:15 AM, Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > “Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day?”
>
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