discussion Tragic major news events that STILL haunt you to this day?

[Mocha]

survivor: winners at war bootlist

 

 

[MusicLoverDude]

the 2011 Joplin tornado

- 161 lives lost in the modern day and age when we have so much technology to save lives during situations like this. And Mike Bettes breaking down on air after the immediate aftermath.

 

 

[Genius1111]

Surprised that no one mentioned the night when it was revealed that Donald Trump won the electoral college in 2016

 

For me, it's also 9/11.

[Perth]

9/11 for whatever reason. I’m fascinated by it and could watch documentaries about it all day

[BraveNewSeth]

I’m surprised no one mentioned the Pulse club mass shooting

[Archetype]

9/11 and it actually got worse for me as I got older.  The idea of two giant skyscrapers full of people collapsing is honesty a terrifying event and it’s one of the only things that legitimately triggers me.  Like it fills me with a sense of overwhelming doom every time 9/11 comes around because I think of how many people died at once right in my own city, and how so many of them were parents or friends and family of people my family and I know.

[JoeAg]

9/11 for sure, and everything that’s going on right now in Palestine 

 

also, the Montgomery County Snipers in 2002, because that happened when I was 5 and it actively affected my life  I realized it affected me back when it was happening simply by the fact that my kindergarten pumpkin patch field trip was cancelled and I was super persistent with my mom asking her over and over why that was the case. she didn’t use the word “sniper,” granted, I think she said something along the lines of “there are bad men in the area with guns shooting at strangers” and my five-year-old pea brain somehow just understood and let it go at that. I didn’t realize other small things until I was a teenager and my mom told me that apparently she went to a PTA meeting back then and the parents were taught to swing their heads back and forth while walking in public with their kids so they had less of a chance of being sniped in front of their families  dude that sh*t f*cks me up to this day!!

 

 

[JoeAg]

here’s a brief news report on what I’m talking about ^up there
https://youtu.be/hcZ_IRKzJzE?si=J4QDTRhdpiyQxDkj

[*Tim]

The shooting of flight MH17. The images of the body's arriving in The Netherlands still bring me to tears

[JoeAg]

Sandy Hook and Pulse were also big ones, as was Club Q  my best friend knew a drag queen who was a casualty of that night, ugh how horrible

[ugo]

Also that Malaysian flight we never found and that submarine thing 

[Sergi91]

9/11

2015 Paris terrorist attacks 

Charli Hebbo attacks 

Malaysian Airlines disaster 

The Murder of Selena

The 2016 Election night results 

[JGibson]

The election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Brexit referendum victory.

Police killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO in 2014.

9/11 attacks.

Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Uvalde school shootings.

Pulse Nightclub and Club Q shootings.

The police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

Summer 2006 severe weather outbreak in STL.

Damar Hamlin's collapse.

 

 

[Starshine]

9/11

MH370

Sandy Hook

Uvalde

[umich]

The 10-year anniversary of MH370 is coming up this March and there are still little to no details. And it sucks for the families because they still don’t have closure.

[naval23]

9/11 was definitely one of them - I remember being in Grade 2 and my teacher randomly bringing it up and it being everywhere on the news the next week

[Sawk]

How has no one brought up the Aurora Colorado Cinema/Theatre Shooting? They were screening Batman that night and people thought the shooter was part of the show for a bit and then he just started shooting at people in the theatre. I was INSANELY scared of going anywhere alone and would not go to the movies for more than a year after that. 

[ariananext]

The ISIS attacks in Europe, especially the Paris and Ariana Manchester ones because they felt particularly close to me, I remember I couldn't do anything but listen to the news all day, always fearing there was going to be another one. In 2016 there was an explosion at the supermarket outside my house and in that moment I was convinced we were being attacked   

[bjorn]

Oslo+Utoya massacre 

[Mr. Mendes]

I was alive for 9/11 but wasn't even a full year old yet so I obviously don't remember it. The first tragedy I remember being really conscious of was Hurricane Katrina, but Sandy Hook was the first one I was able to grasp the reality and severity of. 

[Aria0327]

sewol ferry 

911

[Jotham]

COVID feels surreal and I still think about how different my life would be if it never happened.

[Capris Groove]

9/11 is responsible for my fear of large skyscrapers and heights. The image of the towers coming down is a core memory of mine. Absolutely horrific - from some angles it actually looks like a monster.

 

I remember religious people were sure that the devil's face was in the smoke. News channels were running it. Of course it was all nonsense, but as a child it still terrified me.

 

[Magic_boXX]

DC snipper, I was terrified  as a kid to go outside.

[Bacardo Royale]

That gay club massacre in Orlando   Seems everyone forgot about that