Three News Worthy Events in My Life and Three Events from My Father's Life

The earliest news worthy event that I can vividly remember would have to be 9/11. I was in second grade, and I can clearly recall my mother zipping up my jacket before I went to the bus. The News was on and I saw a burning building, and I was watching the T.V another plane hit the other tower. When I went to school the teachers announced that there had been a terrorist attack. I was too young to fully comprehend what was happening so I wasn't worked up. After that day it was on the news for weeks, and I could tell that everyone became significantly more patriotic.  
     The next big event that comes to mind was the Columbia space shuttle explosion. I was in fifth grade, and at I was using the internet at that point. I can remember opening up the internet and the hope page had a big news break about a space ship that had exploded. Being in fifth grade, this sparked my interest. So I read the article, but I didn't understand a lot of the important details. After reading the article the story was on T.V for a while.
Hurricane Katrina was the first big disaster that I found my self surrounded by information about the disaster. I was in seventh grade. At this point of my life I was pretty engrossed with main-stream pop culture, and New Orleans coverage was in all forms of media. When I would watch MTV, or something that was around my age appeal, I would see all these famous telling me how bad the situation was. This was also one of the first times I was able to acknowledge a flawed U.S government. Ever since 9/11 I was surrounded by patriotism.

One of the most important events my father can recall was the firs moon landing in 1969. He remembers watching it with his family and how everyone at school thought it was the greatest thing ever. 

When My Dad was 17 he remembers the official ending of vietnam. He described it as "everyone felt as if a burden had been lifted"

He also said he remembered the Kent State shootings, but he was only 11 or 12 at the time, so he didn't understanding the big controversy.