I keep saying that my post from 2016 is my last word on 9/11. I keep finding new things to say (but if you want to read that post, here you go: The Last Night of the World).
The reason for this is because the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01 will hang like a spectre over this country for a very long time. It's the most deadly terrorist attack in human history, it took place on US soil, and that ain't disappearing any time soon. 2,403 people died at Pearl Harbor and look how Pearl Harbor is still with us almost 82 years later. 2,996 people died in the 9/11 attacks. And when you consider that those born directly after the attacks are now 22 years old and that some of those have had children... we're now two generations after the fact. That's a while.
Yet in many ways it seems like yesterday.
Regardless of how it feels, the 9/11 conspiracy movement only seems to be growing.
And of course there's people who buy into the bullshit because they never meet a conspiracy theory they didn't choose to believe. At this point I'm waiting for aliens to be blamed, because what else is left? All I know is that it's incredibly disrespectful to those who died and the people who cared about them.
But anyway... back to the something new I was talking about.
It's the dogs of 9/11, and it's remarkable (here's a link in case TikTok is being a dick)...
@weratedogs Remembering The Dogs of 9/11 ❤️ #weratedogs ♬ original sound - weratedogs
We Rate Dogs is one of my favorite TikTok accounts to begin with. But this took it to the next level for me.
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Isn’t it weird how it was basically two generations ago and feels like yesterday? I remember everything about it… including how horribly deficient the online live reporting of it was.