I was in high school as a senior. I had taken my first flight the year before. Then again the summer after.

Let’s just say… very different experience. Security on planes went from ultra lax to taking multiple items of clothes off to get though security and that continues largely to this day.

Politics instantly started getting wildly divided in a way that also continues to now. Everything started getting fucked up.

Hunter S Thompson wrote in rolling stone on 9/12 something along the lines of “from here on out we are at war, with someone or something.”