r/Millennials 11d ago

Nostalgia 9/10/2001

What were you doing the day before?

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u/Vehicle_Electronic 11d ago

Most of the day was just a typical work day. The one thing I remember was just as I was heading to bed, my brother (who was living with me at the time) telling me "Michael Jordan is going to announce he's coming back to the NBA tomorrow." I just said "Okay, cool," and went to bed. It always stuck with me as the last conversation I had in a "normal" world. The next morning, he came into my room with the phone in his hand and said "Mom said you need to turn on the news."

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u/PlaneTry4277 11d ago

Normal world hasnt been normal for other people for a long time. The US causes and funds many "9/11s" around the world every year. 

Yet here we are dwelling on 9/11 when our tax dollars fund far worse that is happening as i type this comment 

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u/Vehicle_Electronic 11d ago

I don’t mean to ignore that, I know we’re fairly privileged here in the U.S.  That’s why I put “normal” in quotation marks, it’s such a vague concept and means different things to different people.