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by fastasucan 2190 days ago
I heard about the first plane from a colleague of my dad, and I (admittedly not that old) threated it as a fun fact kind of, almost like a joke. "Can you believe crashing a plane into a building! How can the plane fly so low, how can the building be so tall". Almost like we expected it to be featured on the next blooper reel. Then we came home and watched it on TV, and understood the seriousness. Learning about the second plane was surreal, that planted a seed of this couldn't be an accident. Then the towers fell and the world changed. One of the smallest ways it changed was that we never again will be as naive when we are confronted by an act of terrorism like we were then. That is a weird untangible world that now are lost.