18 years ago America experienced a collective trauma. National PTSD. We still haven’t healed, and it still impacts our daily lives. #September11
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
For me it was a point of inflection. 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.' Left corporate IT shortly after. Never looked back.
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Replying to @HynesDm
I was in high school. I never saw an adult world without the trauma.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @HynesDm
I was in elementary & they didn’t even try to protect us from seeing it. We all watched in unison. We didn’t really grasp what was actually happen because the teachers hid their emotions as to not frighten us but once we all got home.... it was clear there was sheer terror
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Replying to @itsmedevclev @HynesDm
My history teacher had it up on the television and just sat there in the front row desks with his head in his hands staring like a man who’d lost everything. We all goofed off and threw paper airplanes but kept stealing glances at him like, something heavy is clearly going on.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @HynesDm
Now I see clips of the footage and I think, that learned man sat there in a room full of loud kids playing childish games and watched this unfold. Alone in a sea of children who had no idea what would come next for them.
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I wish I could go back and just sit quietly with him so he wasn’t so alone at that moment.
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