No connection? Tell that to my friend who lost his aunt, my classmate who lost her cousin, or even all of us Millennials who suddenly had fighter jets flying overhead all day every day, jingoism, militarization, and on and on, as a brand new form of all-encompassing daily life.

How do you figure we didn't have any connection to 9/11? Many of us lost loved ones or friends that day and the world is still feeling the fallout from that event.

Compare that to Y2K. No millennials, or very very few, were directly affected. It was a nothing burger because of the older folks who quietly handled it.