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Breaking news: Less breaking news on CNN

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HanSenSE, Jun 3, 2022.

  1. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I can’t be the only Gen X kid whose first thought as the first Gulf War came together was “Wait, I thought wars were only something we used to do.” Then we plowed through the Iraqi army like a homecoming opponent and suddenly we had a taste for blood.
     
  2. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    I was a senior in HS and I remember thinking we were headed for a long war. Kids in my class were talking about enlisting as soon as they graduated. Then it was over in the blink of an eye! And everything ended happily ever after.
     
  3. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I was two years behind you. Recall too that those were the days when high schools had been hooked up for Channel One News and it was an easy step from there to get cable access. So we’d watch CNN coverage in class. Within a couple of days it was clearly a rout and we started consuming it like it was SportsCenter highlights. I low key think that kind of spirit carried over and made us a lot more eager to play war in the following years.
     
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  4. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I was entering my senior year of high school and visiting relatives when we first started sending troops over during Desert Shield. My relatives were somewhat worried, and I essentially responded, “-You’re worried? Shit, I could get drafted!”

    I remember when we started officially attacking and we also thought this was going to be long. Then I started hearing someone use some silly catchphrase like “It’s a fast-break war” and thinking Magic Johnson was doing a no-look bomb dropping in the desert, Then it was over just like that.
     
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  5. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Kent tried to parlay that leather jacket into more power than he had and quickly got slapped down. I haven't seen him since.
     
  6. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    I was just out of college when the war started, and I thought for a second about enlisting, which lasted as long as it took me to hit another bowl. I would not have been good in the military, with a well-developed sense of fuck you I'll do what I want that wouldn't fly in the service.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The US didn't learn from the first Gulf War, but enemies and potential enemies did. Our military was too strong to face with conventional means. Other means had to be found. Next stop. Osama bin Laden.
     
  8. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Dude, you never watched "History's Mysteries" on History Channel?!?!?
     
  9. Typist Clerk

    Typist Clerk Well-Known Member

    And John Holliman.
     
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  10. X-Hack

    X-Hack Well-Known Member

    Arthur Kent was indeed "the Scud Stud." Bernard Shaw was the one reporting live with the bombs dropping.

    I didn't actually see any of their broadcasts -- I was in Israel in a gas mask. But I read the Herald Tribune and got the Time and Newsweek international editions back then and they kept me up on American media happenings (and awful shit going on in America, like "God Bless the USA" and Beverly Hills 90210).
     
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Same here. Cleansed my twitter feed of the bulk of accounts I was following for news and politics. As I mentioned earlier, we don't get a daily print paper anymore, but I may get a digital one just to keep up with what's going on in town. My capacity to give a damn was exhausted by the election, and there are folks out there in a better position to carry on the fight than me. Got enough stuff going on in my life as it is.
     
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  12. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    I was in high school at the time and was gung-ho about joining the military, so much as to visiting the recruiting office. My dad, who was a Vietnam Vet, said "Let's hold on a minute there," and got a few of his buddies and talked me down.
     
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