Today its been a good eighteen years since that act of terrorism. Which stands, at least in the Western World, as one of the greatest acts of terrorism ever committed, where nearly 3000 people were unjustly killed by the acts of a small group of terrorists.
Remembering back it was while my two parents were still together. I had a friend over and we were playing a pc game together, ironically it was about flying small toy planes. My mom rushed in and told us both to turn to DR1, which had the Danish National New Channel on it. They spent the rest of the day detailing the events as they were occuring. We saw to our surprise the second plane crash, and then the final collapse of the towers as the heated steel finally weakened too much to carry their load.
The reactions differed. But mostly there were sympathetic reactions. As we were kids there were sometimes, at least among the guys, some uncharitable reactions that I hope you'll forgive young kids for. But all schools in Denmark held a two-minute-long moment of silence in our classrooms.
After that, we experienced changes in the form of new airport security, and our soldiers went to war with the US as we were allies. The merits of those wars would often be debated, as I'm sure it often was in your country. Europe would over the next several years, find and stop several copy-cat terrorist acts, though bomb planters weren't stopped.
My condolences to my friends in the US. Especially if you have personally lost someone to that event.
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