9/11
The day everything changed
This is Part 19 of 20 of my ongoing series covering some of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history and the innocent people whose lives were stolen.
For all the rest, scroll through my archive
Some events mark time. September 11, 2001 erased it — drew a hard line between the world that existed before 8:46 that morning and everything that came after. Wars. Surveillance states. Two decades of combat that consumed a generation of soldiers and left whole nations in ruin. The reverberations are still moving — through policy, through politics, through the men and women still dying of cancers they earned breathing the air at Ground Zero. No attack in modern history triggered so much, cost so much, or changed so much. The world that exists today was shaped in large part by what nineteen Muslim terrorists did on a clear Tuesday morning in September.
What makes it worse is that 25 years later, a disturbing number of people, particularly younger generations, have only a foggy sense of what actually happened and who was responsible. Some peddle the Mossad conspiracy. Some claim it was an inside job. These aren’t fringe internet oddities anymore; they circulate openly. The people repeating them either don’t know basic recent history or are intentionally peddling conspiracy 💩 for clicks. I hope both groups read this.
