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in march ‘01, nearing graduation and the deadline for getting kicked out, i enlisted in the army with a planned shipdate in nov between march and nov *something* happened, and i got a 48hr notice (received a half day late) to report in late sept it was a weird spot to see the 9/11 aftershocks from

for one thing, my class had been half a class originally going to ft moore (then benning), half going to ft jackson, somehow all in a hastily added cycle at ft. leonard wood which are respectively the infantry training base, the base nicknamed “relaxin’ jackson”, and “fort lost in the woods”

with hindsight, 9/11 broke the collective consciousness of the US due to the realization that international news could happen TO us and not just from us it made daily life first feel like a liminal echo of reality in shock, and then an increasingly horrifying black mirror of reality in response