9/11: 5 years onward
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I was on my way to work... I flipped on Howard Stern to them raving about some planes flying into the WTC... so I flipped over to a local news radio station to hear that all flights were being grounded...
... I picked up the phone and called my brother... he gave me the news and said he and his wife were huddled under the covers and watched the second tower fall live on TV...
... after hanging up... i looked around at the people sitting in traffic and you could see everyone had an odd 'attention' about them... they were all glued to their radios... everyone was being polite and letting people pass etc... very odd..
... got into work and everyone was just glued to the tube... stunned... scared...
... it sobered me up for a few weeks after that...
.. being over here in the states... you're so used to seeing violence on tv from another country and dismissing it as normal, but when the towers fell and the Pentagon got hit... reality set in.
I never really got 'passionate' about social issues or politics until after watching those towers fall... it was truly a wake-up to me (25 yr old male, single... no kids... no family in-state)... it really got to me and smacked some 'love' for what I have and who I know into me.