I was pretty young still but basically, yeah. I remember coming home to my parents crying and being like... you didn't even know those people and strangers die all the time?
I can understand being in shock because the significant destruction and spreading of carcinogens in a population center in a country that hadn't suffered a notable attack since Pearl Harbor (I know there were some smaller terrorist attacks) can make you abruptly feel extremely unsafe. I do think the way people mourn it is a little strange because an outsized amount of the victims would have been finance ghouls (it was the "World Trade Center!"), though there were worthwhile people in the building and especially who died trying to help.
Oh definitely, but as a kid I didn't understand any of that. It just felt like some arbitrary new set of social rules had gone into effect and only the adults got the memo. All of the information we got from our schoolyard peers was gossip passed down from the most vocal and reactionary parents, with maybe a tiny bit of pushback from the early internet dorks and the kids whose parents obviously had organic gardens.
I can understand being in shock because the significant destruction and spreading of carcinogens in a population center in a country that hadn't suffered a notable attack since Pearl Harbor (I know there were some smaller terrorist attacks) can make you abruptly feel extremely unsafe. I do think the way people mourn it is a little strange because an outsized amount of the victims would have been finance ghouls (it was the "World Trade Center!"), though there were worthwhile people in the building and especially who died trying to help.
Oh definitely, but as a kid I didn't understand any of that. It just felt like some arbitrary new set of social rules had gone into effect and only the adults got the memo. All of the information we got from our schoolyard peers was gossip passed down from the most vocal and reactionary parents, with maybe a tiny bit of pushback from the early internet dorks and the kids whose parents obviously had organic gardens.