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By: Ignorant Historian » Blog Archive » A Generation’s Legacy

Ignorant Historian » Blog Archive » A Generation’s Legacy — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:46:29 +0000

[...] Welcome to the Ignorant Historian! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve already mentioned it a couple of times, but I was listening to The Millennials by Thom Rainer and Jess Rainer over the last couple of weeks. It’s been having me think a lot about my generation. I’ve already shared my thoughts about how I felt like September 11th was the most influential event to my generation. [...]

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:37:12 +0000

I think I truly became an American that day.

By: Ronnica

Ronnica — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:19:40 +0000

Camile has a wonderful follow-up post to this one. She says,

“Though I did not lose anyone in the September 11th attack, we discovered my aunt was fine a few days later, we (young Americans) all lost something: our naive faith that everything was right and good in the world. For the first time in our history, America was not all powerful and untouchable, we could be gotten to, our world could be rocked. We watched the people of Iraq and Afghanistan hold signs that cursed our nation and our people. How could we not be changed?”

Read the whole post on her blog:

http://classroomconfessions.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/where-were-you/

Valentine: I’ve not heard that!

Chere: I think that a lot, too. Each generation is responsible for their own sins, but I believe that much of what we’ve done has been a poor response to the generations before us.

Cheryl: Yes, and thank you.

By: Kayren

Kayren — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:23:07 +0000

We have pictures taken from Liberty Island just 13 months prior to the attacks. We still lived in NJ and were getting ready to move to Illinois, just on the other side of St. Louis.

Having four small children, homeschooling, a husband in the military…watching the tower fall on television…images that are forever ingrained in my mind…explanations that are so difficult for children to understand. It’s hard enough for us to wrap our minds around it. My husband and other people I knew going overseas to places they never would have otherwise gone.

It shaped and changed us all.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:07:16 +0000

I definitely remember throughout the year. I have been to Ground Zero several times, and it’s always such a solemn experience.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:57:34 +0000

I think it is up to your generation (and every generation) to grow up and be responsible for themselves no matter what example or upbringing they had. You are doing a great job with that, Ronnica. :)

Thanks for the reminder today. Abby was just born 11 days earlier on Aug. 31 when I was sitting in the kitchen with her, about to send Ted and Emily off to the museum, and saw the first plane hit the towers. Could never, ever forget that.

By: GZoe

GZoe — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:38:20 +0000

yes, I remember…we have so much for which to be thankful. What difference does it make, what you are called. We are living in the USA…We are USAns.

By: Chère

Chère — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:51:57 +0000

I agree. I think there’s a lot to be said about “Millenials” (which I’m never quite sure if I fit into that bracket or not), and most of it is said by older generations and most of it is negative. That’s not to say it’s not deserved or true. But a lot of the time I just want to say back, “and whose FAULT is it? Why are you blaming us for all these faults you see in us? YOU made us this way! You raised and educated us, it’s your example we follow and react to…” but I never actually say it. I just think it.

In reply to the above side note, I have a friend who is very sad to see 2010 because he’s consistently said “It’s Aught-Seven” etc. for the last decade. He calls it his throwback to 1901. :)

By: valentine

valentine — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:07:35 +0000

it was a defining moment. i can’t remember hardly anything from 8 years ago, but i can tell you almost every detail of that day. it will definitely stay with me a long time.

on a side note, i think people have started calling the 00′s the naughts…..not sure why LOL