Interesting. I have thought in the last few years how the memory of 9-11 is so much like the Great Generation thought about Pearl harbor. To me its just history. I have seen the pictures, videos, movies, read the books about it. But its not as real to me as 9-11 was.Zarathustra wrote: He will have the luxury of thinking about it as something like Pearl Harbor, something that might even bug him every year as the anniversary rolls around and our society shares a collective memory that he can't share, a memory like folklore that tells a tale of sadness that he'd rather not feel.
I was in a radiator shop having my radiator flushed. I was sitting there with the owner and we were watching it all unfold on TV. My truck had been ready for 45 minutes but we were too busy seeing this happen, seeing the second building hit and realizing this was no accident. Then the horror of seeing people jumping from buildings, then the Pentagon is hit, then a plane unaccounted for. Its almost surreal to remember but its such a solid memory.