It's just so much a part of their world. It's terrifying.
A couple of years ago I was hanging out with my nephew, who was born in 2004, and I was reading an action novel with a jet on the cover. He asked me what it was about and I told him it was about bad guys hijacking an airplane. He asked if I had heard of the Twin Towers and the airplanes that were hijacked then.
I told him I remembered it; I had been at work when it happened.
He gave me a look of round-eyed shock.
"You were ALIVE THEN?"
Oh God. It's like the Kennedy assassination was for me. It's been that way for their entire lives.
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A couple of years ago I was hanging out with my nephew, who was born in 2004, and I was reading an action novel with a jet on the cover. He asked me what it was about and I told him it was about bad guys hijacking an airplane. He asked if I had heard of the Twin Towers and the airplanes that were hijacked then.
I told him I remembered it; I had been at work when it happened.
He gave me a look of round-eyed shock.
"You were ALIVE THEN?"
Oh God. It's like the Kennedy assassination was for me. It's been that way for their entire lives.