3 Newsworthy events from Jimmy A

1. The terrorist attacks of 9/11/01
This is the first newsworthy event that I remember in my lifetime because it is the only attack on U.S. soil that I have ever witnessed.  I remember that when I first heard about the first plane hitting the building, I was eating a bagel in my living room.  When dad told me to come to the kitchen and when watched the live news report come in, and as they were interviewing a women you could just see another plane crash into the other tower.  I was in third grade at the time, and when I got to school all we did all day was watch the news report and discuss the events that had taken place so far.  I think this was my most newsworthy story because of the number of people who died that day and the amount of coverage and support for the victims and their families shown by the American people.  There was meaning to the word patriotism again.

2.  Hurricane Katrina, 2006
This is my 2nd most newsworthy story because it was not just the hurricane that hit New Orleans, but the fact that the levees broke as well.  I had been in New Orleans only a few weeks prior for a family vacation, so I felt that I had a strong connection to the city.  I also knew a person who had family down there, but, fortunately, they did leave the city before the hurricane hit.  I think that it is newsworthy because of the type of support that everyone who witnessed these events wanted to give to the people to shelter and feed them.  That support still continues today by rebuilding all of the houses that were destroyed.  I was also newsworthy because of the lack of support from the government who were supposed to be helping these people.  The event stuck in my mind because of the overwhelming support shown by the American people.

3. The election of Barack Obama, 2009
This is a newsworthy story to me because it shows how far the American people have come since the time of slavery and how much more tolerant people are of other races.  This is very fresh in my mind because we talked about it a lot at school.  The entire high school watched Obama's entire inauguration speech, and we spent a lot of time with our history teacher and class discussing how this will change the U.S. and what this means to our country.  I even had the chance in the summer of 2009 to visit Obama's neighborhood.  So, I feel that I have more of a connection to him.  I think that this is newsworthy also because this election just opens up more doors for equality in lots of other aspects of life, and not just including race but sex as well.