Kulturkampf

[Nintex]

To be fair, I was in school during 9/11. Some of the conspiracies reached us kids. Like how Grand Theft Auto 3 originally had you flying a plane into a building. It’s why the dodo didn’t have wings.

I remember it like yesterday. It was my first year in high school and on my way back from a school trip there was news on the radio that there was a 'fire at the World Trade Center caused by a plane crash'. I got home around 4 and ran upstairs to play Red Alert 2. It had all those "Russia invades US missions" and I was just lobbing Russian missiles at the Pentagon or something.

My mother got home and called me downstairs for tea and biscuits. She turned on the TV and I briefly saw images of the WTC but she thought it was a movie and flipped the channel to something else. I ran upstairs to my brother to fetch him and told him that the WTC was on fire and the US was under attack. He said it was bullshit and it was just the game I was playing. 

We were all downstairs when my dad got home and I started talking about the WTC and the attack on the US again, my father asked my brother: "Wait, is that true?" and my brother said: "No, he's just playing a war game" and my mother mentioned there was a movie about it on TV. My father figured it wouldn't hurt to flip the channel so he grabbed the remote and quickly found out nearly every channel showed the same feed.

After that everything was bonkers, I remember we had big screens set-up in the high school auditorium so you could watch the live CNN feed of the US invasion of Afghanistan and people clapped and cheered as the ships fired their missiles.