On the 20th anniversary of 9/11
Sep. 11th, 2021 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burendasan4I woke up this morning and since it's Saturday, I was leisurely eating breakfast and browsing the Internet between 8:45 and 9am. My mind flashed back to the moment almost exactly 20 years ago: in my dorm room, getting ready for class, a quick check of the news on the Internet (via my heavy desktop computer) and not seeing anything of interest to me, unaware of what was going on.
I didn't have a television in my dorm room, but I had proudly installed a "TV card" on my computer that allowed me to watch TV on my computer. This is how I followed the news on that day and in the days following the September 11th attacks.
This morning, after cleaning up and getting dressed, I looked down at my smartwatch. Could the me of 20 years ago have imagined I would be looking at a computerized watch 20 years later...or a computerized phone? Could we of 20 years ago have imagined all of what was to come?
There are many for whom this day does not stop being painful, for many, many reasons.
Already there is a generation of people who were born after or were too young to remember 9/11. I imagine that as the years go by, there will be fewer and fewer of us who remember that day.
For more detailed recollections of that day, read the post I wrote exactly 15 years ago.
I didn't have a television in my dorm room, but I had proudly installed a "TV card" on my computer that allowed me to watch TV on my computer. This is how I followed the news on that day and in the days following the September 11th attacks.
This morning, after cleaning up and getting dressed, I looked down at my smartwatch. Could the me of 20 years ago have imagined I would be looking at a computerized watch 20 years later...or a computerized phone? Could we of 20 years ago have imagined all of what was to come?
There are many for whom this day does not stop being painful, for many, many reasons.
Already there is a generation of people who were born after or were too young to remember 9/11. I imagine that as the years go by, there will be fewer and fewer of us who remember that day.
For more detailed recollections of that day, read the post I wrote exactly 15 years ago.
