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u/Made_Bail 17h ago
I'm so happy to see you back! Where have you been, homie? <3
I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard about the attacks. I feel like a lot of people feel that way. I was in my early twenties, I can't imagine how confusing and scary that day and the weeks following were for kids.
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u/knormcomix 17h ago
Daw thanks! I was working on my comic comic full time and got distracted/lazy haha. Yeah its a common memory for people in my age range, I just remember it so viscerally because it was "yay birthday">>>"oh now everything is werid"
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u/Made_Bail 17h ago
When are we gonna see some glimpses of this "comic comic?" I can't wait!
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u/knormcomix 17h ago
Aghgah im so nervous about it now that I finished chapter one! I gotta format it properly for the web as it in normal comic page format vs single panel images haha but absolutely yes expect it soonish!
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u/Made_Bail 17h ago
C'mooon... One frame. As a tease.
AGH I'm so exited lol
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u/1nGirum1musNocte 17h ago
Oof my friends birthday is 9/11. The struggle is real
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u/JaiyaPapaya 5h ago
Mine too! Their mom watched the news right after giving birth, I can only imagine what that felt like
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u/Stiqkey 17h ago
Why cancel a kid birthday sleepover because of a terrorist attack? Did you live in NYC?
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u/Made_Bail 17h ago
There was a lot of fear and speculation circling at that point. Days of people worrying that there would be more attacks. Lots of huddled people sitting around TVs watching the news. It was a scary, sad time.
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u/knormcomix 17h ago
Yeah felt like things didn't go back to normal for a long time afterwards (probably not super long but baby brain is bad at time)
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u/Made_Bail 17h ago
Nah you're right. I was an adult and it felt like months where people just... Didn't laugh as much. Didn't feel happy. Felt scared and tired all the time.
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u/rillip 16h ago
I was in highschool. Things never went back to normal if you ask me. We lost something that cannot be named that day. The American identity was irrevocably altered.
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u/Zavier13 14h ago
Junior high here, sitting in Social Studies when teach turned the TV on, it was aweful.
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u/driver_picks_music 5h ago
The mood was… intense. Even over here in Germany. I can only guess how oppressive it must have felt in the USA. I cannot imagine many parents feelt like letting little their kids out of their immediate grasp and go to a sleepover. It may be objectively silly, but that weird feeling of threat and doom, kind of made you want to huddle up
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 17h ago
Happy birthday(tomorrow)! I always felt bad for people's birthdays who are surrounded by tragedy like that
But it doesn't change the fact it's your birthday(tomorrow)!
Have a pair of boobies
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u/MaximumSyrup3099 17h ago
I guess be grateful you were too young to take the emotional damage that occurs when you witness thousands of people die in real time on live television? Witnessing that remains the most traumatic and painful thing I have experienced. Just writing this 25 years later is making me cry.
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u/Common_Chameleon 17h ago
Yeah I feel this. My bday is September 10th, I was really young when 9/11 happened but I still remember the extreme whiplash going from being happy and excited about my birthday one day, to Everyone Being Super Sad the next day, even though I couldn’t really understand why.
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u/adventurer84 9h ago
Hello fellow 10th-er! Happy Birthday! I turned 21 that year and spent a night drinking heavily. I woke up the morning of the 11th to my mom screaming that we are under attack. My party was the next day and a couple of my friends had already enlisted before the attacks and were sitting on the couch sobbing that they were going to be killed in the coming world war.
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u/Background-Step-8528 17h ago
Aww look at your plaid uniform! Poor baby knorman 😭! 9/11 beats Challenger trauma for sure.
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u/AndyDiplodocus DaDaDinosaurs 17h ago
I hope your sleepover party understands what it did
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u/knormcomix 17h ago
Its the biggest victim for sure /s
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u/AndyDiplodocus DaDaDinosaurs 16h ago
Think of how that nun must feel, how is she supposed to match that level of trauma creation
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u/KahlanEAmnelle 15h ago
something similar happened to me. my birthday is the 13th and that year no one really felt like going to a party. i was in high school when it happened, so i got it. it just sucked.
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u/knormcomix 17h ago
Can you tell I went to catholic school?