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mattnd2007
09/11/19 1:44:23 PM
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https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/opinion/4652777-Unity-in-the-U.S.-in-a-post-911-world

This is an opinion piece from my local paper. Thought she actually had some nice words to say. Nothing groundbreaking, but also interesting to see a story from someone around my age. She says she was in 5th grade, so she is only 2 years younger than myself.
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Hanky_Bannister
09/11/19 1:45:40 PM
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yeah most people coming up now, 9/11 is a just a modern historical footnote.
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AlephZero
09/11/19 1:46:54 PM
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lol, never expected to see the Dickinson Press linked on CE
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mattnd2007
09/11/19 3:09:34 PM
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AlephZero posted...
lol, never expected to see the Dickinson Press linked on CE

Oh @AlephZero are you from the area?
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AlephZero
09/11/19 3:10:48 PM
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Yes, I grew up in Beach.
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mattnd2007
09/11/19 3:47:15 PM
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Oh nice
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Antifar
09/11/19 3:53:05 PM
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I'm skeptical of takes that look back with fondness at post-9/11 unity. That unity passed the Patriot Act and launched a war that we're still dealing with today.
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Hanky_Bannister
09/11/19 3:54:28 PM
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Antifar posted...
I'm skeptical of takes that look back with fondness at post-9/11 unity. That unity passed the Patriot Act and launched a war that we're still dealing with today.

it was temporary.

i remember people being very nice for a few weeks. even on the freeway, commuting to work, people drove calmer.

once the rhetoric and the war started everything turned toxic.

i have noticed a drastic change in the general mood of society post 9/11

its quite obvious it ruined us
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mattnd2007
09/11/19 4:08:55 PM
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i remember people being very nice for a few weeks. even on the freeway, commuting to work, people drove calmer.


Yeah I think that is what she was referring to. People actually tried to be nicer to each other for a while. I remember it. Even some of the douchebag jock types in my class went out of their way to be less assholish for a while
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mattnd2007
09/11/19 4:09:30 PM
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Double posted. Thought the first one didn't go through
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s0nicfan
09/11/19 4:16:20 PM
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Hanky_Bannister posted...

i have noticed a drastic change in the general mood of society post 9/11

its quite obvious it ruined us


It will be interesting in another couple of decades when historians look back on this time period.

While I'm sure his ideal of "completely destroying the United States" was never realistically achievable, it's questionable whether Osama Bin Laden ultimately got what he wanted from the attacks.
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