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Post by FamilySherpa on Jul 6, 2016 11:42:29 GMT -8
The first major news event you remember as a kid (any age)?
As in, you saw it on the news, or read about it, and understood the significance of.
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Post by hikerjer on Jul 6, 2016 11:50:47 GMT -8
I'm not precisely certain, but I'm sure it was related to the Cold War. That stuff scared me to death. I was sure the Russians and their nukes were coming any day.
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Post by grace on Jul 6, 2016 12:06:31 GMT -8
Deciding that if I were an adult I would vote for Reagan, bc he was in a movie with a monkey.
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Post by zeke on Jul 6, 2016 12:10:48 GMT -8
Bay of Pigs. I was aware of JFK being elected, defeating Nixon. I saw the televised debates, but what it signified was beyond my own awareness. Bay of Pigs seemed like massive mistake, as it was reported by the major news agencies. It brought us closer to WW3. Some neighbors were among those who built a bomb shelter in their backyard. We practiced getting under our Primary school desks and kissing our asses goodbye.
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Post by ashepabst on Jul 6, 2016 12:15:53 GMT -8
I was 9 or 10 for Desert Storm. I can still recall the CNN intro footage of soldiers running along trench lines.
I surely didn't have context for anything on that scale at 9 or 10 y.o., but it definitely left it's mark.
I was 19 on 9/11, and that's definitely the root of my news junkie beginnings. I remember asking my mom "why do they hate us", which seems so silly and ignorant in retrospect. but, I was.
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Post by daveb on Jul 6, 2016 12:17:08 GMT -8
At the moment the earliest I can recall is the day Elvis died.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jul 6, 2016 12:17:15 GMT -8
The Vietnam War, though I don't think I really understood the significance.
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Post by tigger on Jul 6, 2016 12:18:12 GMT -8
I remember watching the launching of rockets into space as a child. My parents would wake us up and we knew it was a big deal.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jul 6, 2016 12:18:22 GMT -8
Deciding that if I were an adult I would vote for Reagan, bc he was in a movie with a monkey. Well, you may not be able to vote for Reagan, but you do have the opportunity to vote for a monkey (please don't). |
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Post by BigLoad on Jul 6, 2016 12:31:45 GMT -8
The first one that's really vivid in my mind is the JFK assassination.
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Post by echo on Jul 6, 2016 12:36:11 GMT -8
I remember the news opening, and knowing that as soon as we heard guns or helicopters my parents would tell me to go play in my room. It was the six o'clock news and coverage was always Vietnam, but the first real, allowed to watch news event I remember was the moon landing, I was six.
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Post by hikerjer on Jul 6, 2016 12:37:37 GMT -8
Some neighbors were among those who built a bomb shelter in their backyard. Ya, we had neighbors like that too. Growing up a town with a huge SAC base and ICM facility sort of fostered that kind of attitude, I suppose. |
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Post by FamilySherpa on Jul 6, 2016 12:37:46 GMT -8
I think for me, it must be the Berlin Wall falling or the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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Post by tomas on Jul 6, 2016 13:07:41 GMT -8
I remember watching the launching of rockets into space as a child. My parents would wake us up and we knew it was a big deal. Apollo 11 moon landing for the same reasons. My parents made me wake up and watch it in the communal TV room in our apartment building in NYC. |
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Post by reuben on Jul 6, 2016 13:25:29 GMT -8
Wow. Landing on the moon was probably the biggest, but anything to do with the space program had me glued to our second hand grainy 13" (15"?) black and white tube. The Saturn V was the most awesome, powerful, thing I had ever seen. Magnificent engineering. But I also remember the Mercury and Gemini programs. My paternal grandfather actually called me Sputnik, since I was born in the same month as that seminal satellite.
I remember, just a few months or years later, being at some sort of Cub Scout or Boy Scout camp when another mission landed on the moon, and men walked around up there. It was a clear night. The moon was quite visible. I remember thinking "Wow, people are walking around up there." To me, it was the most amazing thing that I could even begin to understand.
The murders of MLK, JFK, and RFK. Sad to say, but I remember a lot of hate and violence, although I was too young to really understand most of it - Vietnam, Kent State, the assassinations, Selma... Nixon resigning. I kept asking, "Why?" My parents had no good answers, and they were sad about that.
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