@hasya23 What did it for me was driving home from work that morning (they'd closed the office and told all of us to go home), and on the way home I heard on the radio that a bunch of screwheads had set fire to an Indian restaurant downtown "to get back for 9/11."

That was probably my first lesson in "No, everything really is fucked up, and stupid people can be very dangerous."

9/11 also pretty much helped kill the company I was working for at the time - first blow in a three-punch combo, as it were.