Someone who wasn't alive at the time simply will not be able to understand how totally it took over all of culture and identity.
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I have a vivid memory of a girl I knew coming to school with red white and blue clothes and wearing U.S. flag facepaint while she walked around sobbing, this was on the west coast and I'm almost positive she knew no one who was there.
rapidly folding dollar bills in front of my child like i'm in 4th grade again to recreate the experience of being 9 when 9/11 happened :pepe-silvia: :rust-darkness: :stalin-smokin: :pannekoek-point:
I remember being on sites like Neopets, and they were full of people drawing pictures of their digital animal characters saluting the American flag while a single tear drifts down their face. It was utterly bizarre.
Can confirm, I was not alive and do not understand
In the before times you would only really see the US flag at post offices and schools. Maybe a flagpole in a strip mall. But only because McDonald's wanted to fly their flag and it would be weird alone.
lol what no
i was in the US in about 1998 and it was full of flags. the amount of flags was already ridiculous.
As a zoomer I'm kinda shocked by this. Americans being weepy flagwavers who display it anywhere they can just feels in-character to me, I never would've thought it wasn't in front of people's houses and shit back then.
Yeah I just can't imagine Americans in the 90s not being 24/7 turbo jingos
Unless gay-jesus-probably is from Gander or something I don't know what to say.
Why specifically a small village in Newfoundland? Or are you talking about somewhere else?
Gander became famous on 9/11 because of the sheer number of flights it took in once we closed our airspace. People were like, taking airline passengers into their homes for dinner and shit. I know we're all irony-pilled around here but Gander genuinely made the world a better place in a time that looked pretty bleak for a lot of people.
There's a pretty popular stageplay or show about it, it's called Come From Away, haven't seen it myself but it's pretty big for smalltime Newfoundland
It was weird being a child growing up there when 9/11 happened, I recall hearing about the plane hitting a building and in my youthful naivety thought it was a local accident and some poor sucker in a cessna got real unlucky til I got home and was enlightened.