The millennials who came of age during 9/11 enter middle age worse for wear.
Millennials were the first modern American generation to have the dream of a better life than their parents crumble in front of their faces, writes Nicole Pandolfo.September 2001, I and my fellow 1984-born classmates were a week and a half into our senior year of high school.
That Tuesday of Sept. 11, 2001, was, famously, a perfect September day. Suddenly that morning, while in American history at Paulsboro High School in Paulsboro, the teacher turned on the TV to the news where we saw the Twin Towers smoking, and instructed us, gravely, to note that we were living through American history: “You’ll tell your children about this,” the teacher said.
Many of my classmates enlisted in the military. I moved to New York City in the fall of 2002 and spent my first college semesters living through the days of yellow, orange, and red terror alerts. That we all didn’t develop ulcers is a miracle, considering how much drinking we had to do to cope with the stress of being told that any moment might be when you were maimed or killed in a terrorist attack.
Millennial teenagers once had to whisper into a corded phone line pulled around the kitchen wall. Today, we get heart palpitations at the idea of having to conduct a formal phone call. We ate every kind of cafeteria mystery lunch meat, but now recoil at the thought of consuming a nonorganic strawberry.
Each generation has within it a few peak years that define the times. For baby boomers, it was those affected by the Vietnam draft. For Gen X, it was those who came of age during the invention of the World Wide Web. And for Gen Z, it was the COVID-19 pandemic.
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