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Who Remember This? We Also Broadcasted It Live To Schoolrooms (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Could have been worse. They wanted to send Big Bird.

Also, I wasn’t in kindergarten yet or I’d have seen it. I think this is a core Gen X memory that Millennials don’t have.

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah millenial's earliest memory of tragedy is said to be 9/11. Can confirm as a baby millenial who was 7 at the time.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hey we also got a shuttle explosion, it was just sandwiched between gestures loosely at the past 30 years

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