Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks

Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by boredemployee on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:07AM (#32798932)

it's crazy to think that until the 2nd plane hit, everyone was thinking about _just_ a bad tragedy, and then came the 2nd explosion and the world changed completely.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by pfarrell on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:33AM (#32799110)

That’s exactly what it was like. I was at work and had a big project due for client delivery that day that I was finishing up. When the first plane hit, it was definitely “oh man, what a weird thing to happen; what a tragedy.” When the second one hit, it was, “oh shit. Wait what??? That can’t be an accident??”

I would compare the “oh shit, what does this mean” feeling to how I felt to March 11, 2020, when the NBA announced it was cancelling their season That’s when it became definite to me that the pandemic was real and unavoidable.

In the same way, the future of war for America started to seem unavoidable as one realized the planes were an act of war. Especially when the Pentagon was hit and then later that week when people were getting Anthrax in their mail. That’s something I never hear people talk about, but was just as scary and only added to the chaotic feeling of “wtf is going on?”

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by ekianjo on Sunday September 11, 2022 @09:39AM (#32799533)

The anhtrax stuff that followed is now some obscure story but it was weird and strange at the time.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by pfarrell on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:27AM (#32799895)

Exactly. I don’t know much about it, but when thinking back to that time, I remembered it was just part of the crazy moment.

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by boredemployee on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:30AM (#32799918)

>> When the second one hit, it was, “oh shit. Wait what??? That can’t be an accident??”

Yes. And I still get a mixed feeling of:

1) "I'm glad I don't live in NYC/USA" and

2) "I wish I was there to help people somehow"

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Re:Fark.com's live thread during the Sept. 11 attacks by h2odragon on Sunday September 11, 2022 @08:47AM (#32799190)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

The truths of that one are buried under so much official horseshit. Easier to ask now, "who benefited?" and check their subsequent records to see what else they were involved in.

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