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The alley was probably nice and quiet, he could focus on his game.

It isn't impossible that he didn't know.

Many people don't listen to the radio or watch TV. No smart phones.

edit = I saw the story [comment above] and the guy was just trying to be normal. I can respect his choice.

gotta get catharsis while you're processing tragedy somehow. in a lot of ways this guy had it figured out

He was in a league and the games weren't cancelled

I remember I was in high school and they didn’t do early dismissal but all of our classes were pointless because we just watched the news. I also remember an edgelord kid making jokes while the news was on after the first plane hit about how the pilot must have been drunk or something and then literally watching another plane hit live and he shut up

Then I had a shift at my job, blockbuster video, which decided that people may want to rent movies during this tragic time so we had to come into work. Absolutely no one came in and my coworker spent the entire shift freaked the fuck out that a nuclear bomb would be dropped on the northeast

For reference I lived in New Jersey not that far from Manhattan. I could kind of get it if I lived in like Wisconsin or something.

I wonder what it would be like today... Just one 8 hour long news segment that not everyone even hears about?

Bill seems like a good guy. I read the article hoping that he would mention that he has a brother called Tom.

Quite interesting seeing how everyone reacted at the time.

Or started the game before then and decided to finish anyway. Or started before then and was too in the zone to hear about news.

I was in college in Texas when it happened. I don't remember anything closing.

All of my classes kept to their regular schedules.

"40 Wall street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's the tallest And I just spoke to my people, and they said it's the most unbelievable sight, it's probably seven or eight blocks away from the World Trade Center, and yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of stone and brick and mortar and steel ..."

Trump on 9/11.

Yeah, apparently he lives in Massachusetts.

Shit... I never thought about it. Do other countries have bowling? Like, I know the game/sport is derived from various previous games/sports throughout history.

But bowling in its current American form, is that played a lot else where? And if so, how do those top tier american bowlers i see on the ocho stack up? I guess I know what internet video rabbit hole im falling down tonight.

You remember how weird and scary and paranoid everything was in the early days of the pandemic? That’s a bit what it was like on/after 9/11. It was a shock to the entire nation, and the world suddenly felt uncertain in a way it hadn’t on 9/10.

You’re contextualizig the attack in terms of loss of life, numbers, but what you’re missing is the vibe of the thing.

I watched human beings jump out of skyscrapers live, my homeroom class. It had an impact.

And then everything went nuts, the Patriot act got passed, and the whole WMD bullshit, and my whole high school encircled the building and prayed. Nuts.

i remember going home with a friend because my parents were both working, and watching him play team fortress classic while half the lobby had nicknames like "OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS NO BALLS"

because 9/11 was never about human life, Americans don't give a shit about that. they care about their own life, and 9/11 was a shocking, if temporary, reminder that a full life isn't a sure thing.

basically the American people felt for a moment how their government has made brown people all around the world every day for decades and the panic was enough to start multiple wars without an end in sight.

and of course as evidenced by these wars, it was a perfect excuse for maxing out the already obnoxious jingoism of the population. they just do it on reflex, no thinking.

never forget. respect the veterans. thank you for your service.

what was the service again? oh yeah cracking skulls of brown children? thanks a lot. I'm thankful you exploded those newlyweds on their wedding day who were surely getting married so they could do terror attacks together. thank you.

biggest terror organization in the world.

One is a conflict that has perpetuated arguably for more than 400 years.

One is a war that has been going on since 1948. Could be argued that it even started in the 1800's with zionism.

One was COMPLETELY out of the blue, unprecedented in USA. Pearl Harbor doesn't even come close to the impact of 9/11.

So yeah. Obviously people have different feeling about it.