I have been alive for roughly seventeen years and there has been an extreme amount of news all those years but out of all of it i remember only a few more then others. I remember when I was in third grade on September 11th nearing the end of school we had a tv in our school room watching hte news and a clip of two buildings right next to each other had enormous amounts of smoke pouring out of them. Suprisingly i remember staying quite calm throughout this whole ordeal because i really had no idea what was going on, a few years later once i bacame much more mature and self aware i realized what had actually taken place and in this moment in time it ment much more. Another huge even i was alive for was Hurricane Katrina happened while i was at Forsyth in sixth grade, i do not remember about hearing anything at school but i do remember when i got home me and my brother sat down with our parents while they explained to us over and over that we will remember this for the rest of our lives and how terrifying a day this was and we will be telling our kids one day what happened and its importance, then they talked all night about how thankful we should be for not living down in Louisiana and how we should make a service trip down, but we never did because dad is always busy and it was to dangerous for us. Finally the third and least vivid memory of a large news even was the comet HAILBOPP but since this happened when i was four i needed a little help remembering. I lived in Michigan at the time and this comet was slowly moving through the sky and it only was going to come around once in my lifetime so i was always marveling at its awesomeness, it was the largest brightest thing in the sky i had ever witnessed, it took a couple weeks to pass so i saw it a couple times but all i remember is how large and cool it was.
From my mothers point of view she clearly remembers large news events that happened before i was a bleep in their mind such as president Kennedy being assassinated. She was five years old when it happened and she remembers her mother crying, and she told her what had happened, both her parents were very depressed about this because they had both adored this president. Next what she remembered was the moonwalk, she recalled this most because her family had just bought a TV for the occasion, it was a small black and white portable. She remembers the thrill of watching the moonwalk and looking at the moon at the same time a realizing that there was actually someone up there walking around, but she was also extremely confused of how we had managed this huge feat. She remembers many things but for the third she chose the election of a black president, obviously this was more recent and she was so satisfied of how far our country has come ethically to elect a black president but still realizes that we have much more to do before we are perfect, also she said it was one of the few times she had thought that voting accomplished something.
-Adrien
