Writer's Block: News development

[kanders07]

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The first major new event I remember was JFK's assassination. My dad was stationed in France, so we were living there. I was six and in first grade. My mother came into my bedroom and told me there was no school because someone had killed the president. She was crying.

It didn't really have an impact on my world view because I don't think, at six, I really had a world view. Other things had more impact as I got older and started to understand more. Things like the Viet Nam War, The Cold War, other assassinations. Most of those things turned me into a complete pacifist.

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[togsos.livejournal.com]

Three things i remember most are all from the start of the 80's...I remember a special report on the khmer rouge, it wasn't contemporary, maybe 2 or 3 years after the events but the image of the camera panning around the rooms full of skulls still remains vividly embedded in my mind. I also remember having a cake sale in school for the striking workers in the Gdańsk Shipyard. My assistant in work who is Polish thinks the idea of little irish kids baking cakes to make money for Polish workers is hilarious. Also the day Bobby Sands died and the absolute horror that it had happened and waiting to see how the troubles would escalate as a result, it was a truly scary time.

[bluemeanybeany.livejournal.com]

The only slight memory I have of the Soviet Union was that I had a jigsaw of the world which had little pictures on it of whatever was grown there. The USSR was on the jigsaw with little oil wells and bread baskets and I can remember my Mum explaining that people in the USSR were struggling at the moment and runing out of power and food. [so Im guessing it was 1989\1990] She also said they had had a war in which theyd got rid of a king and had two sides who were White and Red.

For some unknown reason I can also remember the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 [aged 8] and my Dad being annoyed because he said he was the best chance for the peace process there.

the first thing I can remember seeing and understanding was probably Dunblane when I was around nine, all the mothers outside the schoolgates were crying and I knew that the parents and teachers were more scared and upset than the children and we had to try to be helpful.