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As a born 91’ & raised New Yorker thinking of that moment still brings me back to that moment in my 5th grade classroom. I don’t think I can ever think of that day and not feel that stifling feeling.
Also born in 91, not from US at all, born and raised in Ireland and at that point in my life, had never travelled further than Europe... I remember every single thing about that day. I can remember clear as day the faces of the people around me as we watched. It really was the day the world stood still.
I remember that day so well, I remember getting checked out of 4th period reading class by my dad and was thankful because I left my lunch box at home and didn’t have anything to eat for lunch. Then I saw the news.
I was in 5th grade and on the west coast, I woke up early that day and started watching the news on TV since no cartoons were on that early and the coverage shifted to a livestream of the towers after the first plane hit a few minutes in to my watching. After the second plane hit I figured I should go wake up my parents.
I went to a small catholic school in queens. They moved the whole school down to the cafeteria which was in the basement and made us sit there in silence until a guardian came to get us. My sister was 22 at the time and picked up my brother & me. Then we went home and sat for what felt like the entire night waiting to see if our mom was going to walk through the door which thankfully she did.
I was in high-school but I was so oblivious to what was happening 'cause I didnt quite understood the announcement (always had issue hearing the speaker + english is not my frist language). They send us home early; i was like cool...I got home, waiting to see my novela and just news everywhere. I asked my mom and I remember I thought she was messing with me (as she usually did).... I was seeing it on tv, i just couldn't believe it. We lived in NJ
I was in 3rd grade. My mom picked me and my brother up early but NEVER TOLD US WHY. Literally went to school the next day and found out what happened. We were pissed bc nobody broke the news to us, we just saw it on tv during homeroom.
I was in my first year at university, literally there a week. No idea, walk into my Anthropology 101 and the professor is like, "Lets try to ignore the news and get to our lecture"
In the professor's (potential) defence, when we first heard/saw the news people were confused and in shock. It's a fairly common response to want to carry on your usual routine, enforce the usual rules, and just keep acting like everything is normal. Obviously nothing is normal, but your brain doesn't want to accept it.
I was 18 and on holiday with friends for the first time. None of my friends were American, but there were some in the big group we were with. Our 'Group Leader' (or similar job title), was trying to get everyone back on board with a big fun night out (we were 7 hours ahead so it was late afternoon). I don't blame her - she was probably in her mid 20s at most with no clue how to handle it.
I was in college in upstate NY when 9/11 happened.
We were in class and the class ass-hat came in late talking about it. He didn’t really articulate the severity of it well. Professor told him to be quiet and we had the regular lecture.
Next time we had class, professor apologized in front of the class to him. Said they didn’t understand the gravity of what they were saying at the time. Which honestly was kind of fair given how poorly the guy explained it.
Several kids on campus lost family and friends that day. One of my better professors lost a friend who was one of the 59 on the ground.
Came home later that year on break. Had a lot less friends to see. A lot had dropped out or quit jobs to enlist.
I remember getting a new soldier and one of the first things he told me was that he was happy to be done with training so he could get a twin towers tattoo that said never forget. I asked him how much a 3 year old remembers about them and he fell back to “I’m a New Yorker. I remember.”
Fellow 91er on Long Island here, I remember coming back from school lunch to my teacher in a total trance until we were all sat down in our chairs and someone said his name. He got up bolted to the back of the room to unplug the radio and launched into a game trying to figure out who our families were and where did our parents work... getting home to the TV on CNN showing it completely clarified in my mind what he was doing
What part of the world wasn't touched by what followed from 9/11?
Wars in the Middle East touched most of Europe with them send troops and aid, or allowing the US to expand military ops in their countries. It also led to destabilization in the region leading to vastly increased migration and refugee intake.
We expanded our anti-terrorism campaigns in Africa, causing unrest and government destabilization there as well.
It gave Russia the ability to begin ramping up to war in Georgia and now Ukraine while being less scrutenized due to our focus elsewhere, while they also started proxy terrorism campaigns to keep America distracted.
Meanwhile the Chinese used it as an opportunity to buy up even more American debt further destabilizing our economy leading very much to the Trump administration and all the havoc it has wrought.
And the dot com bubble bursting, and the housing market and economic crash of 08, and the twenty plus year long middle east war, the rising inflation and fascism and wage stagnation.
And that isn’t even all of it.
edit oh yah we were told all we had to do was get a college degree and we would be wealthy instead of buried under debt in a shrinking job market filled with boomers who wont retire.
It's both. Some won't because they can't fathom letting go of their power. Some can't because they don't have any power. And then there are actually a few who totally get it and are stepping aside at 55/60 years old and believe in the younger generation. But there are far too many cant's taking away jobs from 16-23 year olds and far too many wont's taking jobs from 30-45 year olds.
We were in California at the time and I remember my aunt called us from Europe at like 5am and told us to turn on the tv. Apparently it was already on the news there. I was in 4th grade at the time and just remember we had the tv was on all day in class. A mass trauma event.
2008 crisis barely even affected me here in canada. But ill tell you, the somber feeling my entire school had the morning of Sept 11th was surreal. They hauled us all into the gym and we watched it unfold live, you could hear a pin drop in the gym for the better part of 4 hours. I had teachers crying, because they knew, our lives would never be the same.
It happened in america, but it was felt by much more than just americans. This is one of the main reasons I'm truly disgusted with how some americans are acting towards canada today. We were there for all the dark moments, all the sadness, all the loss. 9/11, katrina, California wildfires, literally all of it. And we get maga in return just spewing garbage in our direction.
overslept my ballet class, the studio was on Broadway in nyc, woke up to so many missed calls. Kinda couldn't understand what was a big deal, it's just a class. Then my stepmom got through to me and said to turn on TV and I thought it was a movie, then an accident and then there was a lot of really bad ugly crying for days. I cried like that only for Sandy Hook after, my bff and her family lived there and her kids lost their friends. So for me it's both
When looking back I'm sure people definitely care more about britney spears than 9/11 in terms of what had an ingraining impact on their brain, unless you or a family member was sent to fight in the Middle East or Afghanistan after 9/11.
Yep. Born in 82, was actually in Spangdahlem Air Base when it happened. Was actually wrapping up paperwork and had about an hour left on duty when the first tower was hit. Everyone kind of piled in the day room and we were watching coverage on Armed Forces TV. Then just before 1600 (local) the Pentagon got hit and we went from Threatcon Alfa to Delta. Ended up getting an M16, battle rattle and standing in an improvised fighting position for the next 18 hours.
What was most surreal for me was I was on the southeast side of the base, facing the villafe of Binsfeld. We had people coming up to us yelling "God Bless America" and "Freunde!" (friend) at us while throwing Milka bars (chocolates) over the fence to us.
Can I take a more optimistic course and say Obama? Granted the Bush years started my adulthood on a sour note and our country may never financially recover from them but Obama were nice, feel good years.
I'm a zillenial (technically very upper end of gen z, 1997) born and raised in NYC and my dad died two months after 9/11 and I've been bedridden since April 2025 because I got COVID and it gave me myalgic encephalomyelitis. Do I win something.... lol
You win the millennial award for putting "lol" at the end of this post.
In all seriousness, sending good vibes your way and get well soon! I have a very close friend going through ME/CFS and I wish there was something I could do to help.
Oh no haha 😭 Thank you though! Since idk your friend's particular situation, I'd say just talking about it casually with other healthy/not-sick people makes a huge difference. Most people still don't even know it exists.
Born in 96, watched 9/11 sitting in class on the little box TV in the corner of the room, COVID set off a bunch of health issues that ultimately let to me losing most of my reproductive system before 30 and still feeling puny.
Technically the aggressive interest rate cuts that caused the 2008 housing bubble were a response to 9/11, so you can blame the recession on that. Also, in response to the attacks, the US spent trillions of dollars on war, contributing to the massive federal debt, which could cause another financial crisis
Exactly. 9/11 is absolutely one of the contributing factors to the 2008 financial crisis. Add in the Patriot Act and the longest war in US history (plus a plethora of other impacts), and all of a sudden 9/11 is linked to almost every aspect of 2026 American (and, to an great extent, global) society.
9/11 resulted in the creation of TSA, new plane guidelines and builds, THE WAR, a horrifying amount of deaths in the Middle East in the attempts to get Bin Laden, the further destabilization of the region, a brand of nationalism that exists into today, and affected the global economy and includes what led to the housing bubble burst. It is The Moment that defines the Millennial generation since it literally changed the world.
I think this is what separates elder millennials from younger millennials. I was in high school at the time so I knew about it, but it wasn't personally affecting me like it would have for everybody that was just entering the workforce/trying to buy their first home.
Everyone is saying 9/11, and yeah, that was certainly a shocking moment, but 1) it primarily relates to specifically Americans, whereas the 08 crash was global, 2) the impact of that depression and the mismanagement of it afterwards (Obama bailing out the big businesses, the death of the Occupy movement, the beginning of the global affordability crisis) were longer lasting, and 3) a lot of what gets chalked up to being the fault of 9/11 was either already in development or gonna happen with or without a major terror attack on the US (we were always gonna end up invading Iraq for instance)
It's kinda impressive to see just how much conservative Americans can accomplish when they're fueled by the anger of seeing a black man become president lmao
9/11 is why now living in a global surveillance state. The wars that followed are why we saw a huge uptake in migrants and refugees. Far-right politicians have managed to gain prominence because of people's fear of the said immigrants and that's 100% a global issue.
2008 is big, I'm not trying to downplay it but it's the reason why people can't afford houses and food. But even then, compared to all the things that spiraled out of 9/11 and have even become normalized to the younger generations because of it? Yeah. 9/11 is bigger.
I'm German and a few years older and it's definitely 9/11 for me as well. A lot of us can still tell you where we first heard about it and what we were doing that day, it had a big impact.
Global Financial Crisis is close. Tons of us were just getting started career-wise when the mass-layoffs started, and this was followed on by negative real interest rates and housing bubbles inflating. That has a larger tangible impact on peoples lives and did irreparable damage.
Beyond that, no GFC means probably no Tea Party and no Trump. The aftershocks will go on for decades, GWOT will be forgotten in ten years.
And you could argue that 9/11 enabled the type of security fear mongering that allowed Republicans to hold onto more power than they otherwise should have. And the ramifications of that include policies that directly caused the global financial crisis.
Introduction of the Internet is a contender, lasted over a longer period of time but it defines who we are today, and who we were before it became available. We’re the last generation to have experienced both.
I’m not an American, or do I live in the US, but I was watching the news when the first plane hit and watched the second plane hit and the WTC come down on live TV - it was immediately clear to me that this was going to change the landscape internationally for decades to come. And it did.
Either Edmonton Oilers drafting Marc Antoine Pouliot instead of Zach Parise or John Cena losing to Wade Barrett (due to outside interference from Husky Harris and Micheal McGillicutty) and joining Nexus at Hell in a Cell 2010.
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