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Oh yeah I forgot about all the confusion on what else would be attacked! People should talk about that more. Every single piece of infrastructure in the whole

Oh yeah I forgot about all the confusion on what else would be attacked! People should talk about that more. Every single piece of infrastructure in the whole country was on people’s minds and locked down! Is there a documentary about that? There is so much possibility for an “isolation thriller” where people’s concerns in their small towns are more the focus than the outcome of what happened by the time the dust settled.

vmception 5y ago
The 21st century version of the White House would probably look so awesome, if, you know, the thing happened
justinzollars 5y ago
You get a sense of that feeling, from watching the various tv stations on this thread. I had the radio on too, and you get a real sense of the total confusion of that day.
kristiandupont 5y ago
I recall a big anthrax scare in the weeks following. Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses.
- slapfrog 5y ago
  > Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses. It turned out that anthrax came from a government lab, and was supposedly sent by a single rogue employee... though doubts linger. There were some hoaxes and bogus scares too though of course. One of my classmates almost got suspended for having foot powder in his gym bag.. thankfully cooler heads prevailed when school officials realized the kid had athletes foot and thought to doubt how a teenage boy could have plausibly procured weaponized anthrax spores in the first place. But yes, the hysteria was palpable.
- vmception 5y ago
  and the DC Sniper! if you were in that area Man that time period must have been so much harder for adults than the teenagers at the time
walshemj 5y ago
Even outside the US - there was some of this. I was in Brighton Conference Centre (Uk) where Tony Blair was due to give a very heavily trailed speech. After Tower one got hit we all went out of the main auditorium - I then realized I had stupidly left my bag unattended and had to go back and retrieve it. After tower two got hit a lot of us started to think what if they have a plane targeting Tony and this building - though its a grim thing to say the RAF QRA where armed

vmception 5y ago

The 21st century version of the White House would probably look so awesome, if, you know, the thing happened

justinzollars 5y ago

You get a sense of that feeling, from watching the various tv stations on this thread. I had the radio on too, and you get a real sense of the total confusion of that day.

kristiandupont 5y ago

I recall a big anthrax scare in the weeks following. Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses.

slapfrog 5y ago
> Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses. It turned out that anthrax came from a government lab, and was supposedly sent by a single rogue employee... though doubts linger. There were some hoaxes and bogus scares too though of course. One of my classmates almost got suspended for having foot powder in his gym bag.. thankfully cooler heads prevailed when school officials realized the kid had athletes foot and thought to doubt how a teenage boy could have plausibly procured weaponized anthrax spores in the first place. But yes, the hysteria was palpable.
vmception 5y ago
and the DC Sniper! if you were in that area Man that time period must have been so much harder for adults than the teenagers at the time

walshemj 5y ago

Even outside the US - there was some of this. I was in Brighton Conference Centre (Uk) where Tony Blair was due to give a very heavily trailed speech. After Tower one got hit we all went out of the main auditorium - I then realized I had stupidly left my bag unattended and had to go back and retrieve it. After tower two got hit a lot of us started to think what if they have a plane targeting Tony and this building - though its a grim thing to say the RAF QRA where armed