The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we will ask you a question or provide a topic, and you will talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
How do you think September 11, 2001 changed your life? Did it make you more Aware? Patriotic? Emotional? Caring? Nervous? etc.
Talk about it….
I was 23 when September 11th happened. I remember being in such disbelief that something like that could happen. I suppose it changed me in that I realized in that moment that we as a nation aren’t as untouchable as I was brought up to believe.
Of course it also changed me in that going through security at airports feels much more exhausting.
Flying is a royal pain in the azz.
Bolstered black swan event to promote acceptance of homeland surveillance state and gave an excuse to invade a sovereign country unrelated to the event. End the 23 year old “temporary” Patriot Act before it ends your privacy all together. It’s like the bridge tolls or sales tax the politicians claimed would be temporary but keep expanding. Wake up.
Through sheer repetition of the 9/11 imagery, the mainstream media created a collective trauma that the government used to remove and restrict civil liberties. Sounds familiar?
It doesn’t my life at all. I don’t fly as often as I did because the extra time to go to the TSA.
I didn’t change much after 9/11. Ever since I was a little kid, patriotism and caring about our country has been a part of my life. Growing up in post WWII, we were taught patriotism in school. We always pledged allegiance to the flag, and sang songs like America The Beautiful, and the Star Spangled Banner. We’d have discussions about US history, and the historical Americans that made America great. The only thing 9/11 did was piss me off, not only at the enemy, but at our own country for butting into the affairs of the Middle East. I have always believed that if we kept our nose out of their business, and leave the Middle East alone, they would have left us alone. We spend too much time antagonizing our adversaries, and trying to police the world. If the Middle East want to live 1,000 years behind the times, then let them.
When will the investigation of Saudi Arabia involvement be made public? This going to be like the JFK assassination?
It woke me up. I was warming up my water truck out at Hunters Point and heard it on the AM radio. A couple of guys I worked with were from Syracuse. We all went in to watch it on the work trailer television.
I have many more opinions on the subject but will leave it at “It woke me up.”.
I’ve only flown once after 9/11 and that was round trip to Seattle and back. At Oakland Airport I ran into the only control freak because it was rather unclear how to get to the Alaska terminal. My response was “OK, then how do I get to the Alaska terminal” which took the aggressive wind out of her sails. Everyone else was polite and friendly. In Seattle the head TSA guy even apologized for his trainees being so slow to x-ray the luggage.
And other than some investors were freaked about 9/11 and pulled support for a project I was working on nothing else changed much for me.
It didn’t. Some new rules like TSA, travel hassles/restrictions and such but none of that we noticed much difference.
It did piss us off we couldn’t fly our plane for a while while all air traffic was shut down but no big deal.