| what has been the defining news event in your life?
Posted: 8/28/2008 1:50:52 PM | I can just remember watching the moon landings, I was about 3.
Other things that stick in my mind
The challenger disaster - I was off work with a stinking cold and watched it as it happened. I can remember looking at the vapour trail and the explosion and the moment of quiet as everyone was stunned by events. I still flinch watching shuttle launches.
Tiananmen Square
The fall of the Berlin Wall. I can remember crying over that one.
Death of Diana. We'd turned the radio on several times that morning only to hear sombre music but turned it off again before we'd heard any news. I was completely shocked by the news and as it was only a week since I'd moved away from Northampton, my hometown, my homesickness went mad.
9/11. I'd heard that there's been some sort of an accident but couldn't get any details as the internet at work had gone into melt down. There must have been some sort of newslfash because everybody's phone suddenly started ringing. Couldn't take in the enormity of it until it was in the paper, the TV coverage just didn't seem real. Stood in Sainsbury's the following morning I was sobbing over the pictures. | |
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| what has been the defining news event in your life?
Posted: 8/28/2008 2:08:24 PM | I thank Valen for this thread and all the contributers as I have found it poignant and some posts particularly moving about the major news stories and how they where affected personally and even as a community and brought back memories of how I felt when I became aware of the story and the aftermath afterwards.
I think we are very lucky in this Country in that we free and don't live our lives in and terror and when the worst happens it is so rare that it becomes a moment in our lives and not the norm and can reflect back rather than living that nightmare day in day out.
The defining news event for me was the Famines in Ethiopia in '84 as I was six at the time and for the first time probably really understood the importance of what was happening and having a desire to help and it affected me.
The negative news stories are always going to be the ones you recall first as they have a greater affect on you and the Country as a whole and are reported more and the story will run for much longer, because of inquests, public inquires, clean up operations or raising funds. It is human nature to be empahthetic and that is good thing.
Never let us forget, or live in fear and strive for all of us to have a better life! | |
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| what has been the defining news event in your life?
Posted: 8/28/2008 4:21:52 PM | A couple for me:
My first really clear memory (I was 3-and-a-bit) is of the Apollo 11 moon landing; my great uncle took me outside, pointed up at the sky and said "there really us a man on the moon tonight".
The other one was 9/11; I was in Chicago when the news broke - but the day before I was in the WTC... | |
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| what has been the defining news event in your life?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:11:09 AM |
But more importantly, did you ask how long it would take before she'd be able to comfortably reach the remote?
Thanks for your concern. After being given the sad / devastating news we both decided that she would live out her days in comfort and want for nothing.
So we flew to California and she underwent pioneering surgery. They implanted a microchip into her head so she could control and turn the TV over simply by thinking it . The brain would send the appropriate signal to the receiver which would then react to her thoughts.
Its kind of ironic, that although the flesh eating disease is in effect killing her slowly, she looks more healthy every time I see her and is much more active. She actually walked to her front door the other day when I knocked on to see the kids. Normally she would phone the kids upstairs and have them answer , rather than take the perilous 5ft or so trek from the armchair. She reckons at the rate she's losing the weight , she expects to be down from officially " morbidly obese" to just obese [although she'll more than likely still be morbid and miserable] by the end of the year . For years she claimed she had an under-active thyroid gland . When in actual fact, she had an under-active will to do anything other than watch TV. That was compounded by an over active appetite and over active Imagination.
The IRA's bombing of the Hotel in Brighton. Where the Prime Minister of the day , Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet ministers were staying to attend the Conservative party conference. I remember being angry with the bombers for missing the intended target and opportunity , that would have spared us years of misery under the tyrannical Maggie.   | |
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| what has been the defining news event in your life?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:32:51 AM | hmmm 2 moments that really stay fresh in my memory:
The falklands: I was sitting on my grandads wheelchair, not knowing what it all meant. Seeing a smouldering mound of weapons with british troops walking past it.
9/11 Twin Towers: I was changing my sons nappy, then the news came up with 'omg why is the towers burning?' called the ex into the frontroom to watch, then the 2nd plane hit.. thats why?. We spent all day watching it all unfold.
Mark x
p.s. and of course losing ones virginity.. was a big news flash in MY history, but I wish I truly could forgot that.  | |
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| what has been the defining news event in your life?
Posted: 8/29/2008 4:49:52 AM | John lennon getting shot was gutted,
diana being killed was getting ready for work loved the lady , 9/11 total shock and scared, and baby jamie bulger being killed broke my heart, | |
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