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I can say that I agree with John in how if you were very young when 9-11 happen, and you were American, there was a fear and a confusion that can't be explain unless you were in this country. Everyone was confused that day, it didn't matter how old you were. I was 15 years old (two days before my 16th)and I knew absolutely NOTHING about politics, or the world. I didn't watch the news, I didn't even know John McCain ran against Bush in 2000. I could not tell you about who was who in this country or world. I never heard of Iraq, or Saddam Hussian, Hamas, jihad, Hizballah, Al-Qa'Ida, or any of these terroist groups, no one did.
It would be another 2-3 years before I would even come to understand the impact of why 9-11 happen to this country. It would take me years to understand the political nature behind a group that hates this country so bad that they wanted to destroy us. Growing up your not taught that, you think the world is what you live in, you don't know what is beyond what you know, I remember sitting infront of the tv for days staring at a new world that I never saw before. You don't have a starting point at that age like John said, if you were a person from the 60's or 70's then you had experience in a way of seeing how the world works. But for my generation 9-11 was the introduction into the world outside our mind and it did change how we thought of it.
However, for John to say To wait in line for 23 years only to have the sorry, future canceled sign flipped in my face was depressing, to say the least I don't agree with that. Maybe he felt that, but I never nor did I ever knew anyone my age who thought that. I think even despite looking at the tv and seeing the buildings fall to the ground, I don't know if anyone sat down and said omg my life is now over . I saw the opposite happen, I saw the entire nation come together and banned with one another and said yeah this terrible thing happen but life is going to go on. I'm going to assume however if someone did think that was the end of there life, it would be one of the people who personally lost a family member either on the planes or in the buildings. I think they are more entitled to feel that then anyone else.