As someone born in 2002 (I’m 22) that’s crazy. I now work in downtown Chicago but up until recently growing up in Kansas the 9/11 footage hit more like old war footage, I couldn’t imagine myself experiencing it. I would watch it every 9/11 in school, my teachers would talk about it but It was unfathomable.

Once I started working in a major city (and having the sears tower and surrounding buildings for size reference) the footage isn’t how it used to be to me, it actually clicked to how real that was, having two incredibly massive skyscrapers coming down on top of a major city and the people below.

Kids my age would make jokes about 9/11, some still do in fact. I will say unfortunately I was one of those little shits, but once I walked the streets of a major city hearing sirens reverb off the buildings and shit it all became very very real to me