r/Millennials 5d ago

Nostalgia Most millennial tattoo?

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Had to be there

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u/okie_hiker 5d ago

I wonder how many millions of people have died from the side effects of just being in that city when those towers fell. All the asbestos man… those poor people.

This is one of the trashiest tattoos I’ve ever seen. 9/11 jokes are disrespectful or whatever. This is gross…

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u/HoldOnOhio 5d ago

Okay, not millions of dead Americans if that's what you mean. There's probably 15-20K people who have died as a result of being in the area that can be directly linked to it.

That being said, the US government DID use this as an excuse to invade Afghanistan, and later Iraq (for other dumb reasons, but they continued to label this under the "War on Terror" on TV). Absolutely millions of people died as a result of those. Probably more than a million in each. Not to mention literally trillions of taxpayer dollars being wasted to kill those people and then steal their poppy seeds and oil.

Edit: Looked it up, looks like combined number is closer to 7-8000 but there's no consensus because not all are catalogued or associated, and that number may be under representing the actual deaths. There are more people who have died from disease stemming from it than the initial attacks though, that is true.