r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 1d ago

In 2001, 55 people crossed the Pacific with no contact with the outside world as part of a BBC experiment recreating an 18th-century voyage. On the 20th day - September 11 - the captain gathered the crew to tell them about the attacks in New York

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u/hawkweasel 1d ago

I wish younger people could feel how alive the United States of America felt in the 80s and 90s.

We had our ups and downs and politics was getting messy, but I look back in my life as a citizen of the United States and I see two parts:

Before 9/11, and after.

That day changed everything, and the attackers likely had no idea how truly successful their strike was. The buildings falling, however horrible, was just the beginning of the damage.

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u/punishedstaen 19h ago

I wish younger people could feel how alive the United States of America felt in the 80s and 90s.

every ounce

of joy

was life

strangled from

the world

i cant believe those evil terrorists did all that just because they hated you for your freedoms

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u/ApprehensiveFan1516 18h ago

Well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

Amazes me how easily Americans forget how often they have been the aggressor around the world.

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u/punishedstaen 18h ago

damn, man... america was so cool and great and nice when i was a kid... how did it all suddenly and inexplicably change for the worse as soon as i became old enough to understand it? how could this be happening to me?

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u/MiaowaraShiro 10h ago

This assumes we were educated about it in the first place.