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

[theblondesalad]

Definitely The Vajont Dam disaster.

It happened in the 60s, so it was a long time ago, but I live in a valley surrounded by dams and sometimes my paranoid ass is really triggered by that

 

Edited December 18, 2023 by theblondesalad

[Almodusa]

I worked right by the WTC this past year and it’s eerie walking around and seeing some locations that I recognize in the videos people took on 9/11. There’s a hotel I used to sit in front of if I got to work a little early and later on realized it was the same corner as one of the videos I’ve seen before of an old man falling when the 2nd plane hit

[Peroxide]

On 12/17/2023 at 3:43 PM, Bacardo Royale said:

That gay club massacre in Orlando   Seems everyone forgot about that

I remember reading the news story and bursting into tears. That one really hit me.

[Oktober Knight]

Nothing will ever compare to the shock of 9/11 happening in real time. It literally felt like the entire world just stopped. Watching the World Trade Center collapse on live TV was absolutely terrifying. 

[superben]

The 2004 Tsunami

[Raptus]

 

[Bears01]

The images of what happened on 9/11 are still absolutely insane and surreal to see even all these years later 

[Beyonnaise]

Common answer but 9/11. Just because I was so young (preschool, I remember my teachers gasping at the TV and we were picked up) so I kinda caught a glimpse of how much life changed, but not fully as I wasn’t an adult. It’s just so crazy watching the footage and hearing stories, it really feels like a movie but it impacted so many people’s entire lives and our whole comprehension of the world (in the West) in an instant.

Edited December 23, 2023 by Beyonnaise

[katara]

Covid obvi

 

But also every time a teacher gets brutally beheaded by muslims for speaking bad about Muhamed. The brutality of the act and the blatant attack on free speech is devastating. 

[BrokenMachine]

 

The fact that the ones responsible for this have campaigned for presidency is just