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[duke_Qa]

Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest events in our time. A black swan next to the fall of the Berlin wall and the Arab Spring.

And I thought, how has this changed my life? I remember I was on the bus on my way home from school when I heard on the radio that a plane crashed into a skyscraper in NY. I was home ten minutes later and we got footage of the smoke coming out of the building, and then we saw the second plane crash. I realized then that someone just hit the angry-button of the US of A, and that the world would never be the same.

Personally, this event caused my resentment in religion to grow further. To see people use religion as a tool for such idiocy was to me the ultimate example of the madness that humans can embrace. It was probably one of those first events where I realized that the human condition is not going to change radically, in a positive direction, in my lifetime.

My education/life has not been changed much by this event. But I believe that my bullshit-radar has been honed by all the things that happened afterwards. I guess you could say the economic situation that we are in now is an direct consequence of the 9/11 battle-extravaganza.

How about you? did you have your life radically changed by the events of 9/11, directly or indirectly?

[Vortigern]

My family and I do a lot of travelling, and it certainly made air travel more irritating. Beyond that, I don't think it really affected me at all. I was only 12 when it happened, after all. But this anniversary means something to me. It means that I view as 'current affairs' something that is now officially regarded as 'history'. Time makes fools of us all.

[Hostile]

1) It's made me prejudice against the religion of Islam.
2) It allowed my mind and heart to except more war.
3) It made me sad every time I remember the event.
4) It made me have disgust for people who have done nothing to me...

[Puppeteer]

I was 8, and I don't even remember the event. I do remember 7/7.
But has either event changed me? I suppose it may have made me hate nationalism and supremacism more, including American and fundamental Islamic supremacy.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

It hasn't really changed my life.
I was 17 when it happened and besides learning more of the dark side of humanity and islam in particular nothing much has changed.

[Romanul]

I was 6.

I don't remember it, but my father told me that when he came home (my mother didn't knew) he said:"Oh gosh, these guys have destroyed the Americans."
And I was like "YEEEEAAAAAAH".

Too much Red Alert xD

But on a serious note, I think it didn't affect me at all. I do remember the Beslan 2004 hostage crisis. I remember that I even wrote in a "diary" that 3 years passed since 9/11 and that shit is happening again.
It did made me question how strong the US was, but this was temporary.But it seems that there was indeed some incompetence regarding what happened back then.

Actually, IIRC they could have captured and sent Osama to Guantanamo since 1988.

[Pasidon]

Oh Rom... you so fly. You make a national vendetta seem like something the kids are listening to on dem' radio.

I was in Antarctica at the time... I didn't even hear about it until 2 months later. But how did 9/11 change Pasidon? It made me spend time on a topic at Revora about 9/11. Perhaps the question is then, how did Pasidon change 9/11?