1983 here, I was still a teenager when it happened.
It was my first month at college, I woke up at 7, barely awake as I walked to my first class of the day and everyone was talking to each other and not paying attention to the professor. Then the professor picks up the mic and tells everyone that class is cancelled because nobody seems to be even remotely focused. That got my attention so I asked another fellow student and he told me that the WTC had been bombed by Bin Laden and thousands are probably dead. I got back to my dorm and my roommate was one of the few on my floor with a TV and we ended up having 20+ people all crammed into that tiny dorm watching the news of the event.
For the next few days, the streets were eerily empty as people were afraid to go out in case terrorists attacked us. And we heard police sirens all throughout the day. A friend of a friend got detained by the police for saying the word "terrorist" many times while at home.. dunno if neighbors heard him or he was saying it over the phone but it turns out he was merely playing Counterstrike over the internet with his friends.
And not surprisingly, we had some big protests over the next few weeks, both from people who wanted revenge and those who disliked the idea of war and how it might end up with them being drafted. Keep in mind this was in Berkeley (where the famous 60s counterculture protests happened) so I dunno if other campuses had this many protests which seemed to be a daily occurrence up until my graduation 4 years later thanks to the Iraq war happening not that long after 9/11.
I don't think 9/11 started the 4th turning but it was definitely the beginning of the end of the 3T...
It was my first month at college, I woke up at 7, barely awake as I walked to my first class of the day and everyone was talking to each other and not paying attention to the professor. Then the professor picks up the mic and tells everyone that class is cancelled because nobody seems to be even remotely focused. That got my attention so I asked another fellow student and he told me that the WTC had been bombed by Bin Laden and thousands are probably dead. I got back to my dorm and my roommate was one of the few on my floor with a TV and we ended up having 20+ people all crammed into that tiny dorm watching the news of the event.
For the next few days, the streets were eerily empty as people were afraid to go out in case terrorists attacked us. And we heard police sirens all throughout the day. A friend of a friend got detained by the police for saying the word "terrorist" many times while at home.. dunno if neighbors heard him or he was saying it over the phone but it turns out he was merely playing Counterstrike over the internet with his friends.
And not surprisingly, we had some big protests over the next few weeks, both from people who wanted revenge and those who disliked the idea of war and how it might end up with them being drafted. Keep in mind this was in Berkeley (where the famous 60s counterculture protests happened) so I dunno if other campuses had this many protests which seemed to be a daily occurrence up until my graduation 4 years later thanks to the Iraq war happening not that long after 9/11.
I don't think 9/11 started the 4th turning but it was definitely the beginning of the end of the 3T...