It was said by a history teacher of mine, shortly after another day that won't soon be forgotten, that September 11 was my generation's Kennedy assassination. I didn't quite understand just what my mother meant about that day in 1963 until the aftermath of 2001's events.
My boys were very young when 9-11 happened. They were SO agitated and upset by the live footage that I turned off the television after somewhere between fifteen and thirty minutes. Definitely less than thirty, but not by much.
They talk about it more in the abstract, because I wasn't going to allow my feelings of trauma to bleed over and wreck THEIR psyches (they were barely in grade school). Very similar to the impact of Reagan's shooting, though I was in middle school when that happened.
I just hope they have another decade or more before they grok, too.
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chanter1944) wrote2015-01-28 07:20 pm
Re: OH, dear--
Re: OH, dear--
They talk about it more in the abstract, because I wasn't going to allow my feelings of trauma to bleed over and wreck THEIR psyches (they were barely in grade school). Very similar to the impact of Reagan's shooting, though I was in middle school when that happened.
I just hope they have another decade or more before they grok, too.