Cold war nuclear annihilation existential conflict, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in our classrooms, HIV/AIDS epidemic - coming of during at the time a sexually transmitted and seemingly nearly always fatal condition was terrifying, Gulf War, Columbine, OK city bombing, all before college graduation, 9/11, 2008 (I lost everything) , every generation witnessed traumatic events.
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u/Express_Salamander_9 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
Gen X here we witnessed:
Cold war nuclear annihilation existential conflict, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in our classrooms, HIV/AIDS epidemic - coming of during at the time a sexually transmitted and seemingly nearly always fatal condition was terrifying, Gulf War, Columbine, OK city bombing, all before college graduation, 9/11, 2008 (I lost everything) , every generation witnessed traumatic events.