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kennypinkerton
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43 years ago - is no longer current... it's past history. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
kennypinkerton
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It's hard to remember something that happened 9 years before I was born... But I do respect it.
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I think the first national crisis I remember before the space shuttle challenger accident was the Iran hostage crisis in 1979... I remember that I had no clue where Iran was, but I felt bad for those people being held against their will.
Other historic things that stick out are Chernobyl, the fall of the Berlin wall, The collapse of the Soviet Union, Iran Contra scandal, The various Desert storm/sheild battles, The Columbia shuttle disaster, Burt Rutan's Space-ship-one flights, Outsourcing of jobs to india and elsewhere, Suddenly realizing that more foreign cars are built in the USA, and more USA cars are made elsewhere (that one is just weird), 911, Katrina, the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think the past 30-50 years have seen more historic goings on than most of the history they teach in school these days.
Other historic things that stick out are Chernobyl, the fall of the Berlin wall, The collapse of the Soviet Union, Iran Contra scandal, The various Desert storm/sheild battles, The Columbia shuttle disaster, Burt Rutan's Space-ship-one flights, Outsourcing of jobs to india and elsewhere, Suddenly realizing that more foreign cars are built in the USA, and more USA cars are made elsewhere (that one is just weird), 911, Katrina, the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think the past 30-50 years have seen more historic goings on than most of the history they teach in school these days.
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I think the past 30-50 years have seen more historic goings on than most of the history they teach in school these days.
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Maybe that's a poor reflection on what's being taught.
Out past the 50 years (take WW2 as the cut-off) there's the Great Depression, World War 1, The Bolshevik Revolution, the invention of radio and telecommunications, flight, all sorts of advances in public health and medicine, and the impact of cars, and the list goes on and on....
It may be that your experience of events increases their relevance over those things that happened years ago, and have always been part of your thinking.
For example, the Challenger probably made an impression that the Hindenberg did not....
I think the past 30-50 years have seen more historic goings on than most of the history they teach in school these days.
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Maybe that's a poor reflection on what's being taught.
Out past the 50 years (take WW2 as the cut-off) there's the Great Depression, World War 1, The Bolshevik Revolution, the invention of radio and telecommunications, flight, all sorts of advances in public health and medicine, and the impact of cars, and the list goes on and on....
It may be that your experience of events increases their relevance over those things that happened years ago, and have always been part of your thinking.
For example, the Challenger probably made an impression that the Hindenberg did not....
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True... And true.
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hehe, I was just thinking the same.. about all the major stuff that happened in the early 1900s, and how hyped up minor things get nowadays (Take the OJ trial) It's the speed of the media, and the ability of being able to cram mole hills down our throats till they seem like mountians. Major historical events seem more spread out to me. It's just all the filler that makes it seem fast paced
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hehe, I was just thinking the same.. about all the major stuff that happened in the early 1900s, and how hyped up minor things get nowadays (Take the OJ trial) It's the speed of the media, and the ability of being able to cram mole hills down our throats till they seem like mountians. Major historical events seem more spread out to me. It's just all the filler that makes it seem fast paced
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Good observation. When you analyse what is actually sustantive news you find that there is usually very little, it's padding and fluff, and Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina and Jen...........Rather like a "People Magazine" masquerading as news.
Say what you like about the BBC (some people don't like it) their content is proper news, and they cover in greater depth if there's not much to tell you.
hehe, I was just thinking the same.. about all the major stuff that happened in the early 1900s, and how hyped up minor things get nowadays (Take the OJ trial) It's the speed of the media, and the ability of being able to cram mole hills down our throats till they seem like mountians. Major historical events seem more spread out to me. It's just all the filler that makes it seem fast paced
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Good observation. When you analyse what is actually sustantive news you find that there is usually very little, it's padding and fluff, and Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina and Jen...........Rather like a "People Magazine" masquerading as news.
Say what you like about the BBC (some people don't like it) their content is proper news, and they cover in greater depth if there's not much to tell you.
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Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina and Jen
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Who?
Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina and Jen
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Who?
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Say what you like about the BBC (some people don't like it) their content is proper news, and they cover in greater depth if there's not much to tell you.
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That's about my only news source anymore, Steve.
I figure if it isn't good enough for the Beeb, it isn't news.
Jeff
Say what you like about the BBC (some people don't like it) their content is proper news, and they cover in greater depth if there's not much to tell you.
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That's about my only news source anymore, Steve.
I figure if it isn't good enough for the Beeb, it isn't news.
Jeff
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I was in Civics class in 8th grade. There was a knock on the door and our teacher was called out of the room. He returned in about 3 minutes, visibly shaken and you could see that he was crying. He was the football coach and a tough SOB, so we were all a bit scared. He quietly told us to return to our home rooms and we were to get our coats and to go home. Buses would be in front of the building in 10 minutes and parents would be waiting for those not riding buses.
It was the coldest moment that I can ever remember because my father died two weeks prior to that and I wasn't sure what the world was doing to me.
It was the coldest moment that I can ever remember because my father died two weeks prior to that and I wasn't sure what the world was doing to me.