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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The news report that probably had the most lasting effect on me was Lockerbie. It wasnt the actual event because Id only be 2 then. But they did a 5 year anniversary report and I really, really shouldnt have watched it. I think it was because they showed a map of the flight path and it went over my town. And then they dissected the whole event with details and footage that to this day still cause me to be very, very afraid. For months I was convinced a plane was going to crash on my house. [which were not helped by living next to a runway] Since the age of seven Ive had nightmares about commercial planes crashing into buildings and Im not the worlds most happiest flyer either. Ive not been on a plane for two years. As I get older my fear seems to be growing and Im not sure there wont come a point when I cant get on a plane anymore. Though its not the flying because I love being in small planes and gliders, it is the awful big commercial planes that fill me with dread- I keep thinking theyre going to explode.
No idea how Im going to get over that.