Even I have sharp memories of this event... And I was far far away from the US. I was at home, a neighbour kid rang my doorbell, he was ringing all the doorbells to tell us we should turn on our tv's and check the news :-/ Such a weird thing, he must've been 10 years old but he was so shocked and aware of the heaviness of it all he was alarming all other people! Never asked him about it afterwards.

The thing is, months later a politician got shot here in our little innocent country. Something like that had NEVER happened over here, nobody (well, almost apparently) owns a gun and there's no violence here to speak of (prisons are empty). It was all 'connected' to what had happened with the Twin Towers and Muslims (he was anti-muslim, we had never had someone so 'right wing' in our politics before either) and terrorism - and I still remember how I, at 14-16 years old, felt like the world before 9/11 was much more innocent and 'safe' than afterwards.

And yes, the narrative... Ugh.

Thanks for sharing, this is an amazing post, important to share. Much love.