On the plus side I had the Smithsonian all to myself in September.

And I vaguely remember seeing TV spots about going into Iraq

And I remember following hurricane katrina as a kid. I was always into the news.

I was in college, I spent a lot of time watching over a freshmen that was from Long Island and who's parrents worked at WTC.

I'm splitting on this tangent a little, it makes me safd how far a lot of the big news anchors have fallen.

Like, look at Anderson here. https://youtu.be/aosNAGt3AxQ?t=40

There was police everywhere. M16s out. Yet I was able to go places that usually would have been barred to me. We were all so unsure so everyone was solicitous.

He used to call shit out

he used to be in the field

he used to be *doing* something

Now he just orange man bads at the TV all day

I went into the Capitol building to pray despite not having a pass.

We went to visit a friend of mom's on that evening (I was 8) and turned on the radio before leaving for some reason. All channels were reporting on the story nonstop, and when we got where we were headed, turned out all TV channels were stocked with the very same reporting. I remember wondering what the big deal was, since we got blown up buildings over here often around that time. The building looked way taller than anything I'd seen up to that point.

it's depressing

Happened to a lot of the big TV anchors from the 90s and 00s

I appreciate the anchor desk newsman who reliably reads the news

I appreciate the guys in the field getting the stories

I don't appreciate pundits pretending to be anchors.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was just freaky. It was so surreal we couldn't really celebrate. Same with the fall of the Soviet Union in Aug 1991. It happened as we were migrating to university. The idea that after the cold war it would all end like a candle blowing out was impossible to fathom.

And that's all most of CNN and Fox is nowadays.

That's wild, man

Yeah I never experienced how absolute the USSR must've seemd

Yeah

I've heard that it felt like a titan that would never fade and then

poof, fucking gone m8

That glorious national anthem lives in in memes, though. So we have that.

So we have that.

much of their vaunted strength was lies and exaggerations.

It lives in the new national anthem as well tbh

I remember I was home sick from school when Reagan was shot. That freaked me out since I was home alone and at 11 years old lacked a frame of reference.

I remember a story about some soviet who came to america and was convinced that a grocery store he visited was a setup by the government

because he couldn't fathom so much food available.

That's true

It was a common reaction

That's brutal

<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Graph_of_Soviet_National_Income_Growth.png>

I was on vacation when the Challenger exploded. My parents and I cried along with Peter Jennings.

oof.

<http://englishrussia.com/2015/01/20/borist-yeltsin-in-american-supermarket/> better link

hey 10th

have you seen the clouds that the spacex rockets create?