It was wild to see it coming at the time, too. I remember a straight up fight in a faculty meeting about whether or not we should bring back the pledge of allegiance that ended with an Air Force vet telling me I didn’t know what it meant to serve my country. I was like … I’m a TEACHER.
@mel.bzky.teamsay what you will about 9/11 but if its goal was to defeat the americans it succeeded, mostly thanks to the americans themselves. it just inevitably set them on a path to their own self-dissolution as a nation and a global hegemon