Sometimes it doesn't feel like its nearly 20 years ago. I woke up that day, and was having my usual coffee watching the news and getting ready for work. They went to a special news report and talked about a plane flying into the World Trade Center, at that time I didn't link it to terrorism, I thought, what a terrible accident and went to work.
It was strange because every single station that I was listening too was covering it, because it was a large plane that hit the building. I got to work and started doing my usual morning stuff when one of my coworkers asked me if I'd heard what happened, and I said yeah a plane crash in New York, and she shook his head and said its two.
Right then I knew the world changed and we had just seen a massive terrorist attack. I dragged a TV into the bullpen (Remember 17 years ago). And we sat there and watched as another plane hit the pentagon and another plane crashed. I remember hearing local news about people leaving down town Calgary. We heard the jets screaming over head and landing at the airport.
No work got done that day, frankly no one was calling in or answering the phone. I remember I got one call from a friend/client who was in tears because she thought that it was the end of the world because the US would nuke whoever was responsible. I had another friend who is a duel citizen who was just enraged, he wanted to kill em all, to which I asked who?
We all left work and went home and I remember staying up almost all night watching the news and being horrified and saying a bit of a prayer for the people in the Planes and the People in the buildings.
But the world did change that day and not for the better.
It was the start of the more militant right gaining a spotlight
The argument of security vs freedom was endlessly debated
The boogey man of global terrorism and while not the rise of extremism, it certainly gained a spotlight it hadn't really had before.
The war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, Gitmo, Mission (not) accomplished, The death of Bin Laden, the rise of the conspiracy theory, paranoia and rage.
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