Looking Back: 20 Years After 9/11
Wait…Planes Hit The World Trade Center?
It’s weird to look back on the twenty years since 9/11. It’s even weirder to think that I know people that don’t remember what life was like before.
I was a 21 year old university student. That morning, I was supposed to be reading for class, but fell asleep. When I woke up, there was a small rock group performing and I really liked them. I remember that one of the guitarists played some really cool slide guitar riffs, on a few songs. Then, all of a sudden, the music stopped. I remember thinking, “What the fuck?! The music was just getting good.”
So I was trying to return to my reading, when I began hearing that “ planes crashed into the World Trade Center.” Maybe, my brain was a little drowsy still, but it just didn’t make any sense. I honestly thought that it had to be a small private plane. Did it get lost? How could they not see The World Trade Center? I think that a TV was tuned to the news, when I, finally, realized that…no… these were huge passenger planes.
I remember calling home on a payphone and I might have had to borrow some change to call. As was his habit, my dad had the news on and confirmed that a large passenger plan did crash into The World Trade Center. I vaguely remember everyone around me just look at each other with looks that screamed, “ What the…
