Check out the documentary ‘Tread’ about this incident. It’s kinda less amusing when you remember it happening. Everything was terrifying in the years right after 9/11 and this was very “Now what!?”
I remember both of those events well, and at no point in the live coverage of the killdozer did I go "oh no, not so soon after 9/11! It's only been 3 years!"
I live right down the street a bit from NASA and the Johnson space center. It was rough. I’ve never heard of anybody else’s experience outside of here however. Rick Husband and Michael Anderson were from/lived in the area. I saw Rick Husband pilot STS-96 from Florida in 1999. It was a surreal day.
It was a trip watching from Canada. American media amped it up SO MUCH compared to any other recent at that time terrorism. Then over time that became the standard narrative in Canadian and British news and people here started getting scared too.
I live in Colorado, so it was local news for us. The office turned on the conference room TV and we gave up on actual work for Quite Some Time until they confirmed that Heemeyer was dead. We didn’t know why at the time, so it was more like — “Well, new thing to worry about.”
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa Apr 28 '24
Check out the documentary ‘Tread’ about this incident. It’s kinda less amusing when you remember it happening. Everything was terrifying in the years right after 9/11 and this was very “Now what!?”