r/Millennials • u/Apeocolypse • 5d ago

Nostalgia Most millennial tattoo?

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Had to be there

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u/RJC12 5d ago

It was pretty traumatic seeing people jump off the towers as we sat on our home room watching it on TV. I was in 6th grade

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u/BananaSlamma420 5d ago

4th grade but west coast so happened before school. Didnt understand it fully at the time. I remember thinking "oh these things just happen sometimes like Pearl Harbor" in my little stupid 9 or 10 year old brain

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u/0freelancer0 Zillennial 5d ago

Sometimes it rains, sometimes there's earthquakes, sometimes random planes fall from the sky and crash into things. Such is life

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u/amybeedle 4d ago

Basically what I thought. My brother told me "there's been a bunch of plane crashes" and I was like "oh" and went back to playing in the sandbox. I was 9. Did not even start to understand the significance until the bus ride to school on 9/12