What do you feel has been the most significant world event that has taken place during your lifetime and why?
This has taken me a bit to answer, not because I don't know which event I want to write about, but because it's tough to write about. I would say 911.. which lead to the war in Iraq. So both would be together in my mind. Why? I probably don't have to answer that part of the question, but I will. I feel that they have both effected and/or changed everyone's life in one way or another. Large or small. The world seems to be more suspicious, more afraid, more dark since 911. Our children live in a time when they don't even know what will happen to them next. If we used to worry about the future, it's now greatly magnified. I lost a good friend who was a fire fighter during 911. I have lost two friends in the war. I know a lot of people have... or they have family or friends over there. No matter if you are "for" or against the war, it's everywhere. I don't think a day can go by without tragedy related to this whole thing. I know there have been other "events" in my lifetime, but these two are the ones that changed everything to me. Things will never be the same.
I think today would be a good day to pray for our men and women over there and their families. Also the families of our lost soldiers!
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23 comments:
Uffda! You made me think!!
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I think I too would say 911, it is just one of the moments that you`ll never forget where you were and the fallout of it hasn`t been any better. Other events certainly could be mentioned too, technological advances for one. Just think about the fact that right now anyone in the world with the right server can log on to here to answer this....pretty mind blowing!
Whew, tough call between a few of them, but I would also have to say that its either the Vietnam War or 9/11. My dad was in Vietnam for a year right after I was born. He was also on the front line. So many kids left without fathers out of that war in particular. I was very lucky. 9/11 is the most significant as far as being the one I remember. I had just finished a CPR course at the hospital that morning when I came out to find everyone gathered in this one office around a t.v. set. I just couldn't believe what was happening. I still don't know how I got home. I don't remember driving home. Once I got here and saw for myself what was going on I just bawled. How could this happen and why were we Americans hated so much? I still don't understand it. And I guess it was rather significant in that - here I learned something useful to save lives and so many were lost that very same day. Sheila
I couldn't pick one. But this is the longest a journal jar question has ever taken me! And it's my favorite entry yet.
Vickey
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well I am with you .It hit evryone and was a very sad day.
not much else to say on this subject but it was the 911 event that will always be with me/
Well it's up .....yeah I like that graphic too!! Had a hard time choosing I got a lot to choose from ................Diane
Whew....... That was one of the toughest ones yet. There have been so many in my life time.
- Passing of the civil rights act
- JFK assasination
- MLK assasination
- Landing On The Moom
- Vietname War
- Falling of the Berlin Wall
- 911
But I think you are right, it would be 911. I think it made everyone in the world realize how precious life is, and that we should savior every moment.
Cause it could end at any time.
And I would miss all the wonderful people I have met in J-Land.
I think your all pretty special.
I have to agree with Hadonfield78 about everything he said about 911. It made me realize everything you have and live for can be gone in the blink of an eye, and not to take anything or anyone for granted.
Ya I picked that one too...I answered the last few in my journal...
This is very difficult for me. A world event..... I really don`t think I am very sure about this one. Being British, possibly I see things through different eyes but I must admit 911 sprung to mind first. A catostrophic tragedy with repercussions that have spread worldwide. As a child I remember my mother crying over the assasination of JFK. He was much respected here too. The moon landing was very significant for the world as a whole.Also the collapse of communism was very important too. There are others, and I can`t really choose, only to say so much has happened in my lifetime and not just for the better. I think perhaps it has to be the moon landing as it has nothing to do with violence or war,and nothing like it had ever happened before.
Sandra xxx
To me, I think the most significant world event to happen in my lifetime was the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union coming apart. It seems to me that the world became a very unstable place when that happened. Don't get me wrong, the Soviet Union was an evil empire. It just seemed that so many nations were so much more stable when there were two superpowers. Like one cancelled out the other. It seems now that the smaller nations that were created by the fall of the USSR, are no longer contained. One thing that has always frightened me was that it was reported that many of the nuclear weapons held by the Soviets were held in the smaller Baltic countries. Since the fall, many of those weapons are unaccounted for. It makes me wonder if today's unsavory elements could possibly obtain one or more weapons.
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9/11/2001 was a horrible day for America. We realized we were not invincible. It was frightening, horrifying, and left everyone lost and confused. So many people died, so many families changed forever. But, when I watched it on TV at the hospital, it didn't register. This was the same day my father died. In a hospital in West Virginia. He was the only thing on our minds, and when he did die, even though we knew it was coming, it brought such grief and shock. The true effect of 9/11 didn't hit my family until much later.
Other things have affected me as well;
The assinations of John and Bobby Kennedy
The assination of Martin Luther King.
The Apollo 11 moon landing, the Apollo 13 rescue.
This question is packed with emotion and makes me sad that I can't think of something good that affected me as much as these events.
EVERYONE HAS SAID THE SAME THINGS I WILL SAY WHEN I WAS A CHILD KILLING OF JFK WAS THE FIRST TIME I REALIZED THE WORLD WAS A CRUEL AND DANGEROUS PLACE AND I'M SURE IT CHANGED LIFE FOR ALL OF US IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. LANDING ON THE MOON WAS A VERY BIG DEAL. 911 LET US ALL KNOW WE ARE NOT SAFE FROM ANYTHING HAPPENING BUT THE THING THAT HAS AFFECTED MY WORLD THE MOST WAS MARTIN LUTHER KING BEING KILLED. I'M FROM MEMPHIS TN. WHERE IT HAPPENED AND MY BOYFIEND WAS THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT MARTIN LUTHER KING TO MEMPHIS BECAUSE HE WAS LEADING THE SANITATION STRIKE FOR THE GARBAGE COLLECTORS IN MEMPHIS. THE GARBAGE MEN WERE BEING SO MISS TREATED HERE. THEY WERE HAVING TO EAT OUT OF GARGAGE CANS TO LIVE FROM THE VERY GARBAGE THAT THEY WERE PICKING UP BEFORE THE STRIKE STARTED. COME ON TO THIS JOURNAL ENTRY AND I WILL EXPLAIN IT ALL AS IT HAPPENED. IT CHANGED CIVIL RIGHTS FOREVER AND I WAS RIGHT HERE WATCHING IT HAPPENEND AND MY BOYFRIEND MADE IT ALL HAPPEN BECAUSE HE WAS PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF THE LABOR LEADERS AND LEAD THE PEOPLE FROM BONDAGE. THIS TELLS THE WHOLE STORY
http://journals.aol.com/judypearllove/MomentsofJudyPearl/entries/1312
9-11 was probably the most significant- i just kept waiting and waiting for them to pull out some survivors from the rubble- but very few lived. the most heart wrenching part was hearing the stories of people leaping to their deaths to avoid being burned alive. i was also very torn up with the timothy mcveigh bombing- i was pregnant with my first child- and i remember just crying and crying seeing those tiny bodies of the children killed in that daycare in that building looking at my own newborn baby girl. events like that- hard to imagine someone being consumed by that much hate.
Of course September 11 has greatly affected my life. My husband, who was in the Army, went to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Being in the infantry, he saw first-hand a lot of bloody conflict. We lost some good friends in Iraq, and my husband was severely injured there as well. Now he is permenently disabled, and his military career is over. While I think the war in Afghanistan is reasonable, I don't believe the Iraq war was the right thing to do. I do not see any justification for the loss of so many lives, not to mention the damage done to the people who survived. My husband still has nightmares and suffers extreme pain every day of life. And for what?
Definitely 911. Words can never adequately describe how this event resonated with me. My heart broke for all the people that perished and those same people's family who suffered on without them. I can't even think of them now without wanting to cry.
http://journals.aol.com/unicornsteph80/Welcometomylife/entries/345
The Vietnam War - but not for the reasons you might think, please read this and take some time to think about our Military men and women.
9-11.
Lori
http://journals.aol.com/helmswondermom/LorisJournalJar/entries/355
http://journals.aol.com/danielled1/DaniellesJournalJar/entries/652
~Danielle
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xoxo~Bernadette
here's mine...i know it's been a while!
http://journals.aol.com/neemom1977/MyJournalJar/entries/1319
Annie =)
http://journals.aol.com/devilletteinme/the-devilettes-journal-jar/entries/2006/11/18/world-event/550
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