[Puppet Guy]

[quote=Canada 02;2022565]honest question. people say 9/11 changed their lives. How?

the line I think best applies was "the world didn't change on 9/11, it's just that America joined it". It tore off the veil that this side of the Atlantic - Canada included - was impenetrable. Better or for worse, I think it's better to have that innocence gone.

Not to sound like Mister Sunshine, but one of the things I took from 9/11 was how humanity can show its best when things are at their worst. I was living in Halifax when it happened, and the airport there took in over 60 planes (the only city in Canada which took in more was Gander, NL). As soon as the planes were on the ground the city put out a call for the locals to take in billets. Halifax responded immediately with hundreds of people opening their houses to strangers until they were allowed to take off again days later. This happened all over the East Coast (there's a book called "The Day the World Came", I think, which is about Gander's experience), and the bonds are still there.

As horrible as 9/11 was, actions like those in NS kept the flame of hope for humanity alive.