Some of my most noteworthy experiences, ones that I will always remember, are the times that I watched my dad on TV since I was a kid. My dad is the manager of the forestry program in the DNR, so he was often interviewed from a variety of different news stations about different forest fire issues. It wasn’t a very rare occasion to watch my dad being interviewed on the news, but it was always an exciting one. My brothers and sisters and I never ceased to get excited when my mom would inform us that my dad would be on TV that night. I felt so proud and special that my dad was being interviewed by TV anchors that, even as a child, I knew were well known people.
Another one of my noteworthy news experiences would be all the news I experienced surrounding September 11. I was only around 8 years old when the events of 9/11 unfolded before my eyes. Because I was still so young it was hard for me to fully comprehend everything that was going on. At first all I knew was that something horrible had happened. I remember watching the news and reading newspapers for days straight during the days surrounding the event. Those news reports and newspapers explained the whole situation to me in a way that I otherwise may not have understood. I used clippings from the newspapers to put inside my journal so I would never forget what had happened.
My final noteworthy news experience was one which happened to me last year at the state fair. My sister and I stood were walking around the fair and looking for something to do when we saw the WCCO channel 4 news anchors standing outside of their booth signing autographs. I usually do not watch that news station so neither I nor my sister recognized any of the anchors signing autographs, but we decided to stand in line for some anyway. There were three or four different anchors standing in the line that we went through to get the free pictures we had received autographed. When I came to the last anchor in the line he stopped me before I left and asked if he could ask me a few questions. I figured that he would just write my answers down, so I said that it was fine, but then he called his camera man over to videotape our conversation. He then began to ask me why I had stood in line to get the autographs and I replied that my sister and I had simply wanted the autographs. He followed up my answer by asking me if I had ever seen him on TV before and he asked me to be honest. I smiled and answered that, no, I had not. Turns out he was doing a report about why people get autographs and randomly asking people who had waited in line. I still chuckle at the fact that I stood in line to get the autographs of news anchors I did not know and just happened to be the one stopped.
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I can completely understand what you were saying about 9-11. I was a week shy of being 12.I was still young, and had a hard time understanding what had happened and the actual impact of the event. But I understood enough. When I moved to New York this year, I went into NYC to see Ground Zero, and it was absolutely tragic. They're in the process of building the new Trade Center, but it will be several years. It's still just like one deep hole in the middle of this gigantic city.
ReplyDelete9/11 will stay imprinted in the minds and hearts of those who experienced it and witnessed it personally or via new. The tragedy of the event has affected many lives. Not only those that lived, worked, or rescued near ground zero but all over the states. Men from thousands of miles away volunteered to be a helping hand for those in need. This was a trying time for those that merely sat and watch the event on television. Many were wondering , what's next? Many lived in fear and fearing the unknown.
ReplyDeleteIt is so awesome that you got to grow up seeing your father on TV! That is something that really sticks with you and shapes who you are. I also admire you for being honest with the news anchor. I'm not quite sure if I would have been able to admit that I didn't actually know him. I got some autographs of some random people years and years ago. At the time I had no idea who they were, but they turned out to be the band Simple Plan. Pretty cool now, but at the time I just wanted their autograph.
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• Spell out eight
• Capitalize C in Channel because it's part of a proper name: WCCO Channel 4