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I can deal with adults dying (Kennedy, 911, Challenger and the rest) but when I saw a hospital full of babies and young children in a hospital dying of AIDS with no medical treatment in 1990/91 in Bosnia after the breakup of Yugoslavia under Slobodan Milosevic, I broke up. Innocent children get me.
Yeah, I don't like abortion either.

September 11, 2001

Ditto what Dwight said. I would add that the fact that those of us that recall and consider that item as "chilling" is that we were young and probably much less inclined to encounter such random, ugly violence as youth are today. That, I'm afraid is a sad, ugly fact. Perhaps there really isn'y more violence - perhaps the news just gets distributed more efficiently AND ugly news SELLS. But, that's my take. To respond further, I believe the there would be similar reaction regardless of the president. It was the act as much or more than the victim.

I got home from work on 08/12/80 and there was song after song by the Beatles being played which I thought was great until I heard the news that a peace loving man like John Lennon had been gunned down outside his home.

Speaking of natural disasters, I actually saw Katrina from the air. GF and I were coming back from a trip to Mexico, and had to fly around it as it was coming into the Gulf.

And I heard Mt St Helens go off - that was a fun one.

Not the most chilling but the Mt St Helens reminded me. A few years ago,maybe 10, I was sitting at my computer and felt my house shake. The next day I saw on the news a factory had exploded in or near Allentown. It must have been some explosion since Allentown is about an hour from me by slab.

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was sitting at my computer and felt my house shake. The next day I saw on the news a factory had exploded in or near Allentown. It must have been some explosion since Allentown is about an hour from me by slab.

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Changing the topic slightly, sorry

Growing up in we used to live about 5 miles maybe a little more from London Heathrow Airport. Around 5.00pm every night Concorde used to take off for the US. When that thing flew over the top off our house on take off the whole house would vibrate, and the noise. OH MY!

Still one of my greatest sights ever is seeing concorde on take off with full afterburners. What a beautiful bird she was.

im a bit younger so i missed all the crazy assinations. But i remember 911 of course, the columbine shootings, which was pretty big cause i was still in high school and all that and they tripled security everywhere the day after. And the LA riots/rodney king thing was pretty nuts, i remember seeing all those "people" pulling that truck driver out of his semi and beating his head in really bad.

Ooooh, I can't believe I forgot Columbine. I had moved back to Montana from Denver at the time but while there I had worked with the father of one of the shooters (Harris). Maybe I just blocked it all out.

Yep, I agree Tom. Sure was a shame that those "people" who nearly beat poor Reginald Denny(the truck driver) to death didn't judge HIM on the "content of his character", huh?!

Yep! Living just few miles from all THAT mess, I remember THAT news broadcast alright!

Yeah its funny cause both you (dwight) and friarjohn were right there for both of those things.

You can only imagine what it was like in school when that columbine thing happend....it was illegal to wear trenchcoats to school, any kind of toy guns in your locker or anything was suspension and charges pressed against you. That happened to my friend who was on probation and trying to stay out of trouble and he happend to have a cap gun in his locker and there he goes back to jail when locker searches came around.

Yeah Dwight at the time i was watching that guy get pulled from the truck i thought it was just a riot and he was getting beat up, i had no clue until i got older that it was all race related and linked back to the rodney king fiasco. I think the viewpoints argued in the movie american history X for both sides were really on point with that whole thing.

Difficult to pick one, but 9/11, Bradford stadium (I remember watching in horror as it developed on TV, before the camera was re-directed)and 7/7 (my 14 year old daughter was attending a dance academy in the road adjacent to Tavistock square) are all difficult to get out of my head.

Because it's in the news again because of the inquest, and is one of the top conspiracy theories, I thought some on this side of the pond may have said the Lady Di ACCIDENT.

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Lady Di ACCIDENT.

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I was very saddened at her death. But i am sick to death of the soap opera that has followed it.

She was in a car being driven by a drunk at over 100mph in a inner city tunnel. he lost control, they crashed, she died. End Of. Can we let the poor woman lie in peace.

As I was getting dressed for school, and heard on the radio of the plane crash that killed the members of the band LYNYRD SKYNYRD.

I also heard both the COLUMBIA and AMERICA shuttle explosion broadcasts live, on the radio.

911

I had a customer tell me this week, as she was watching TV in our waiting room, about a car-jacking that had occurred, and that when recovered, a 13-month old baby was found still strapped in the car seat, shot in the head. I have not heard a whisper of this since, and know not where it occurred. Sad stuff.

Oh, thanks for reminding me about that morning I was driving to work and heard on the radio about Stevie Ray Vaughn dying.