What was the biggest *[non personal]* tragedy that had the biggest effect on you?

Question

Not personal as l;ike a family death or something but outside your family and friends.

Answer 1

The events of September 11, 2001 made me realize the US is vulnerable. I had always kind of felt that threats like terrorists attacks were not really a threat to us. Then we were attacked like that on our own soil and I saw how vulnerable we really are. It is only by the grace of God that humans have not wiped themselves out by now.

Answer 2

Probably the Port Arthur Massacre by Martin Bryant

9/11, the Bali Bombings and the Boxing Day Tsunami also

The Rwandan crisis and the current state of Darfur, the East Timor Massacres

Lady Di's death

Answer 3

Very old tragedy - Bhopal Gas Tragedy. I guess you must have heard about. A poisonous gas leaked out of Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India. The gas leakage happened at night and thousands of people died in their sleep or trying to run away from the city. Every one was helpless there and those people who survived will probably never forget the trauma.

It was not just the tragedy but the fact that a company didn't fulfill its social responsibility by keeping its environment safe and secure. I was kid at that time (in 80's) and for many days I just wondered if I would be caught in a similar situation some day (where I want to run away to save my life but fail..........)

Answer 4

I was 11 years old when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I was attending Catholic grade school when the announcement was made by the newscaster, Walter Cronkite, that Kennedy had been shot. The principal played the report on our speakers in the school. I remember thinking that the world would never be safe again if someone could kill the President of the United States. It changed my way of looking at the world and the people in it.

Answer 5

I was a young (20) firefighter and a paramedic intern on an Air Force Base. One night, one of the colonel's wives decided to quit being the colonel's wife, and shot herself in the head with a .22. Kids were in the house. I had been up 26 hrs prior, had one hour of sleep, and don't remember responding to the residence. I was hit with a ton of bricks and almost didn't recover. It took weeks of counselling. 15 years later, I'm still a firefighter/paramedic and will always remember that incident.

Answer 6

Kurt Cobain Commiting Suicide..

bahahaha

Answer 7

Of course 9/11 on a national scale, but for a personal one:

The assassination of Robert Kennedy. Not because he was such an important icon to me, but it was after JFK and Martin Luther King had been killed. This third murder felt like the end of all my hope and innocence.

I had somewhat the same response to John Lennon's murder.

Answer 8

9/11 and the Holocaust. Both are supreme examples of the hatred that humans have towards each other and that is more of a tragedy than anything else.

Answer 9

The death of Princess Diana....and of John F Kennedy Jr.

Answer 10

911