r/comics Finessed Impropriety 15h ago

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u/TheTerrarian83 14h ago

I wasn’t alive either but I think it just shattered a lot of peoples world view. I assume there was an air of safety, or peace. From what I understand no one could have possibly imagined something like that was even possible. Nowadays it’s joked about and seems obviously like something terrorists could do, but before that, no one would have believed you if you said it was about to happen.

No human being would actually hijack a plane full of innocent lives and deliberately fly it into a building full of thousands more. Until they did.

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u/ptype 14h ago

This is exactly it. There were bombings before, there were plane hijackings before, but the absolute scale of it was unimaginable at the time. 

Especially, imagine if you will, the real-time progression from "holy shit they hit one of the twin towers with a plane, a whole bunch of people just died", to "holy shit they hit the SECOND twin tower with a plane while everyone watched live. A whole bunch more people just died basically in front of my eyes", to "oh my god, they actually fully collapsed. These massive buildings just fell down on themselves. Fucking EVERYONE there just died all at once."

We had no idea any of that was going to happen until it did, and the tragedy just kept getting worse and worse on a larger and larger scale.

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u/anothergaijin 13h ago

Don’t forget the Pentagon, and there was all kinds of unconfirmed reports of other attacks or things. It was panic, chaos and fear all over. For a while US airspace was completely shut down - every single non-military flight was grounded.

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u/matthewmspace 13h ago

And it was Ben Sliney, the National Operations Manager for the FAA, his first day of work. Talk about literal trial by fire.

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u/MediocrePhotoNoob 3h ago

Him getting ready for work: “first day at the new job! Hope it goes well!”