It's weird living through history, then reading about it.

[Chaotic42]

I think everyone here was alive when the Soviet Union fell, though some of us may not remember it falling (I don't).

School starts tomorrow and I'm taking World Civilization. I was looking through the book, and I see pictures of the Trade Center attacks. It's weird, remembering exactly where I was when it happened, watching hours of coverage afterwards, seeing its effects still going on today, and then reading about it in a history book.

It's just strange.

Anyone else feel this way, or is the heat getting to me?

 

[Colt45]

Not really, no.

 

[Brutuskend]

I find that happening more and more....

 

[her209]

Yeah its pretty crazy reading about the Revolutionary War.

 

[MikeMike]

yea, all the old folks on the board find more and more things about their childhood in history books, 9/11 being in the history books would be weird i mean yea, but it was so recent and not EVERYTHING is known about it fully but thats scary.

MIKE

 

[Gurck]

Heh, I remember the fall of the Berlin wall, I was in 8th grade 0.o. I'd feel old if we didn't have posters like BK who remember the invention of the wheel & discovery of fire 😀

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Gurck
Heh, I remember the fall of the Berlin wall, I was in 8th grade 0.o. I'd feel old if we didn't have posters like BK who remember the invention of the wheel & discovery of fire 😀

😛

 

[clickynext]

Know exactly what you're talking about, man. In History we just learned about the students protest in Beijing, China on June 4th, 1989. I believe I was 3 years old then, so I don't remember it, but my family's house was about a half hour walk from tiananmen square and my parents and my uncle were involved in the protests. My uncle went on that day, but left early and considers himself lucky to be alive/unharmed. Part of why we moved to North America two years later.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: clickynext
Know exactly what you're talking about, man. In History we just learned about the students protest in Beijing, China on June 4th, 1989. I believe I was 3 years old then, so I don't remember it, but my family's house was about a half hour walk from tiananmen square and my parents and my uncle were involved in the protests. My uncle went on that day, but left early and considers himself lucky to be alive/unharmed. Part of why we moved to North America two years later.

I hosted some chinese exchange students a couple years ago (sophomore level high schoolers) and some of them didn't even know about the whole Tiananmen massacre. that is scary.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: her209
Yeah its pretty crazy reading about the Revolutionary War.

That's one war I don't remember. I was just a kid. 😀