[ SECRET POST #2980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2980 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Lots of multiple secrets in one comment this week, throwing off the count!

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Comments

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[mekkio]

Your average high school freshman next year will have been born AFTER 9/11. It is just a fact in a history book to them and not something they lived through.

That makes me feel old.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh wow, that reminds me just the other week one of my coworkers (we're both adults, full-time job, not after-school job) said she was too young when 9/11 happened to understand what was going on. I couldn't believe it.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[fingalsanteater]

Oh man, yeah. That makes me feel pretty old.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[nyxelestia]

On Facebook, I'm friends with a teacher (who I never actually had) from my old high school. I remember scrolling through my feed a few years ago and seeing her post saying, "It's official - this is my first class that has no actual memory of 9/11."

That struck me really hard because it's so different from jokes about kids being too young to remember certain movies/toys/etc. - most of those CAN be re-experience by modern kids if you know where to look for them, and were missed out by people of the 'right' age group because they had different interests, lived in a social class, etc.

But something as monumental and historical as 9/11 was something EVERYONE had some kind of memory of, experience with, or connection to. This was something I "shared" with everyone because everyone had at least a memory of it, if not more. But now, this point of potential connection that was so universal (at least within AMERICA) is just GONE with younger kids who don't remember it or weren't even alive for it.

/waxing philosophic

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

But that's always the case. For my parents, it was "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" For my grandparents, it was WWII and the depression.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[nyxelestia]

I know, I know. It was just the first time it happened to me, that I was on the other side of that perspective of a historical event.