Before you ask, no, I don’t remember what it was like to fly in an airplane without TSA commanding you to sacrifice your privacy and your shoes before you ever reached your aircraft. As far as I remember, airports have always invited long lines and short tempers.
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As a member of the generation that grew up on TikTok, I don’t even remember the day 9/11 happened — and it seems strange to write about something that my readers remember vividly, but I don’t.
Nonetheless, I can’t exactly write this section on this day without talking about 9/11.
Believe what you will about the perpetrators of the attack, the war that followed it, or the invasion of American privacy that was its outcome — there is no denying that the men who ran toward danger without properly working comms or backup to save their fellow Americans were heroes. The same goes for the men who signed up to fight terrorism only to spend years suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan. So to them: Thank you.
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