AIBU to ask you your opinion on 9/11 and millennials?

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I read a tweet this weekend that went - why do millennials complain all the time and the answer is basically because we saw 2000 die on tv when we were 10 and the world has got worse ever since.
Reading the following tweets made me realise that actually it must have had a massive effect for the mindset of that group, myself included, and I’ve never really thought about it - obviously more so for those in the US but even in the UK I remember seeing it happen and then it does feel like everything has just got worse. The war in Iraq, the demonisation of Muslims, so so many mass shootings and terrorist attacks, it sometimes feels like we’re sitting on the edge of the abyss. I know a lot of this is to do with non stop news and how small the world has become but it just struck a nerve with me.
One thing I read that I’d never heard about before was that Nick Jr and PBS in the US played cartoons all day to basically distract the kids whilst the adults took in what had just happened and that alone made me want to cry.
Anyway I’m not putting it very well but hopefully it’s makes sense as I just wondered what other people thought because I can lose myself in MN debates and there’s always angles that I’ve not thought about.

We have all been brought up with the threat of terrorism it's just that pre 9/11 it mostly came from a different direction.
I think that one of the effects of the Internet has been to make things that happen a long way away seem much closer, especially things which happen in America.

@frogsoup yes it does - in sorry but it does just about sum up millennials

Im an American and I joined this site just to respond to you. My husband and I were duel American military members with one son and another on the way when we got orders to RAF Lakenheath. We were literally at JFK waiting on our flight to Heathrow when the towers came down. We were stuck in a city that had suffered a catrosphic event (let alone our nation) for over a month trying to.figure out what in the world was going on. My son remembers the towers coming down,he remembers people jumping to their deaths. But do you know what he remembers the most? That when we finally got to Lakenheath and finally got into a home ( a month and a half in NY and 4 weeks in Brandon) he was so excited to start school on base. Their bus that took them to school.was met daily by protesters throwing rocks and bricks at the bus in front of the gate. He remembers all the kids sitting on the floor of the bus avoiding the rocks and bricks.He remembers being taught by his teachers not to speak 'out in the economy" Dont let people know you are an American. He remembers our home and car being vandalized repeatedly by your anti war protesters. He couldnt understand how a 3rd grade kid (7yo) was to blame for all of this chaos.....He definitely didnt understand why he couldnt go say goodbye to his father because once again the base gate was locked due to protesters.
The kids in your country might have seen it like a movie but I guarantee you every American kid remembers that day and everything that came after it

im so sorry your son (and you) had to endure that.

thats really horrendous.

however the point being debated here is whether milenialls are the most hard done-by generation BECAUSE they witnessed 9/11 live.
most here in the uk would say, no, they're not.

As an American I can confirm that Nick,Nick Jr,PBS and Cartoon network all played for weeks. The school children werent so lucky. The news coverage was shown in classrooms while ot was happening. It messed up a lot pf kids

There is a massive difference between people who personally experienced an event and those who saw it on the television. For myself living in a relatively quiet part of the UK I felt a lot more afraid during the 80s than I do now.

Nobody doubts that those directly affected by 9/11 and the events that followed, were directly affected by 9/11 and the events that followed.

The topic of the thread though, is UK millennials who viewed these events via a screen only.

@Leaannb thanks for joining the site to share your experience. I'm an American New Yorker and was in Manhattan that morning. I assume you are or were USAF. Thank you for your service.

I was a bit confused reading your post because I assumed that the protests at the RAF base had something to do with 9/11, but they were more likely due to that base as a storage location for special weapons, as with these protests, correct? And that your housing was off post, hence to bus trip to the on post school.

www.stripes.com/news/eight-protesters-arrested-at-raf-lakenheath-gate-1.54929

I'm so sorry you all had to go through that.

Anti-American sentimemt was high within the villages near Lakenheath. Our housing was in Newmarket. Your link was from 2006 and I know people werent happy about the weapons. Especially after we accidently bombed Yorksshire. But the protests signs stated specifically about 9/11 and warmongering Bush several years after that. Although,killing one of the Queen's horses with a sonic boom didnt help matters.

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